The jury has reached a verdict in the trial of two people suspected in the murder of a Coachella Valley couple, News Channel 3 has confirmed.
The verdict will be read in at the Riverside Hall of Justice on Friday at approximately 9:00 a.m. Stay with News Channel 3 for full coverage of the verdict.
The trial is for Aaron Fernando Bernal, 32, and Adilene Ines Castaneda, 31 two of the four people accused of killing Jonathan Reynoso, 28, and Audrey Moran, 26.
Bernal and Castaneda, along with Manuel Rios and Abraham Fregoso, were arrested in 2020.
Rios is charged with two counts of murder, while the others are each charged with a single count of murder. Bernal, Fregoso, and Castaneda are additionally charged with a single count of being an accessory after the fact.
Rios and Fregoso await their trial.
The investigation began when Reynoso and Moran vanished on May 10, 2017.
Investigators pieced together Moran’s final known movements through cell phone data, tracking her path from her workplace in Palm Desert to Reynoso’s apartment, where she had told family she was picking him up following his return from a trip.