A 25-year-old California man will spend the rest of his days behind bars for kidnapping and killing his ex-girlfriend, a 19-year-old who vanished after leaving her job at AutoZone and was found dead in an orchard three days later.
Madera County Superior Court Judge Ernest LiCalsi on Thursday ordered Vicente Jasso to serve life without the possibility of parole, plus an additional 25 years to life and 4 years and 4 months in prison for the 2023 murder of Melanie Camacho, authorities announced.
A jury on March 18 convicted Jasso on the charge of first-degree murder and found true a special circumstance allegation that the killing occurred during the commission of a kidnapping…