Serial killer Ramon Escobar suspected of killing intercourse offender cellmate

Imprisoned serial killer Ramon Escobar is suspected of murdering his new cellmate at a jail in central California, authorities mentioned.

Escobar shared a cell at North Kern State Jail in Delano with 53-year-old Juan Villanueva, whose dying is being investigated as a murder, in keeping with an announcement from the California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

Villanueva was discovered unresponsive in his cell round 9 a.m., and was pronounced lifeless a short while later at a jail therapy facility. He’d been serving a life sentence with an opportunity of parole for the aggravated sexual assault of a kid underneath the age of 14 in Los Angeles County.

Jail officers have restricted motion within the space the place the assault occurred so they could perform their investigation.

Escobar, the lone suspect within the slaying, has additionally been positioned in restricted housing pending the probe’s consequence. He’s serving life in jail with out the potential of parole for a lethal crime spree between Texas and California in 2018.

Final yr, he pleaded responsible to killing 5 males and injuring seven others, nearly all of them homeless. His first sufferer, nevertheless, was his 65-year-old uncle, who he beat to dying with a police baton on Aug. 24, 2018 in Houston. He strangled his aunt days later and dumped each of their our bodies in separate dumpsters.

Prosecutors mentioned he then fled to California, the place the killing continued. Escobar started attacking individuals — often whereas they have been sleeping within the streets or on the seaside — throughout Los Angeles and Santa Monica over the span of about two weeks in September 2018.

All of his victims in California have been bludgeoned to dying with both a baseball bat or bolt cutters, and all however one was homeless.

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