A preliminary hearing is scheduled Wednesday for a felon accused of fatally stabbing a 56-year-old woman at her Valle Vista property.
Brian Jerome Patton, 38, of Hemet was arrested in December following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation into the death of Denise Maria Christina.
Patton is charged with murder, animal cruelty and a sentence-enhancing allegation of using a deadly weapon in the commission of a felony…