Paul Allen Perez is facing life in prison for the murders, which occurred between 1992 and 2001
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- Paul Allen Perez faces life in prison without the possibility of parole after being convicted of killing five of his infant children, who were all under 6 months old, on Tuesday, Jan. 6
- Perez was charged with their murders in 2020 after the remains of one of his children was found “weighted down and submerged in a cooler” east of Woodland, Calif. in 2007
- Investigators then discovered that five of Perez’s children died between 1992 and 2001, and he was charged with multiple counts of murder and one count of assault of a child under 8 with force likely to produce great bodily injury
A California man has been found guilty of killing five of his children.
Paul Allen Perez, 63, was convicted by a jury on Tuesday, Jan. 6, of multiple counts of murder and one count of assault of a child under 8 with force likely to produce great bodily injury resulting in death, according to a news release from the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office.
The murders occurred between 1992 and 2001 in central and northern California, according to the DA office’s release. A breakthrough in the case occurred after one of the infant’s remains were found “weighted down and submerged in a cooler” east of Woodland, located 20 miles east of Sacramento…