A man whose previous conviction had been tossed out by a U.S. District Court judge has been found guilty in his retrial for the kidnapping, rape and murder of a woman in Pasadena in 1988.
Ronald Anthony Jones, 54, was found guilty by a jury Monday in the brutal killing of 26-year-old Lois Haro.
On Oct. 18, 1988, Jones, who was 18 at the time, and his accomplice, George Marvin Trone, were at a Pasadena shopping mall when they spotted Haro and followed her to her parked car.
The two men held her at gunpoint and forced her into her car where they took her to a remote area in Pasadena where they raped and ultimately killed her, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said.
Haro, according to the Los Angeles Times , was shopping for baby gifts when she was kidnapped by the men.
In 1991, Jones was convicted of murder and other charges and was sentenced to death, but in 2021, the United States District Court reversed the decision. The original trial was found to have issues with the jury selection process, including the exclusion of potential jurors based on their race, ethnicity or other “protected characteristics.”