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Calif. man convicted of Halloween throat slashingSANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — DNA evidence has helped prosecutors win a murder conviction in a cold case throat slashing that took place on Halloween night more than five years ago. An Orange County jury convicted 42-year-old Hector Delio Aguilar Jaramillo, of Lake Elsinore, on Wednesday in the 2006 killing. Prosecutors say Jaramillo stabbed his sister-in-law's boyfriend, 35-year-old Roberto Martinez-Escamilla, multiple times and then slashed his throat, almost decapitating him. Jaramillo fled through a window and the case went cold until 2010, when Jaramillo was arrested for assault in Riverside County and provided a DNA sample to the state database. He was linked to the 2006 murder through DNA found on a glove at the crime scene. Jaramillo will be sentenced on March 9 and faces a maximum of 25 years to life in prison. |
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