Antonio Padilla, a 34-year-old transient, was convicted on Tuesday of killing, decapitating and burying Gina Lockhart, a 60-year-old homeless woman whose body was found weeks later in the backyard of his family’s Huntington Beach home.
Police found Lockhart’s body at a Huntington Beach mobile park in 2022. She had been decapitated and hog-tied prior to her burial by Padilla, according to the Patch.
Lockhart was well-known at shopping centers surrounding Beach Boulevard and Slater Avenue, according to the O.C. Register…