A California jury has found Paul Allen Perez, 63, guilty of murdering five of his children.
Perez was convicted on Tuesday, Jan. 6, of multiple counts of murder, along with 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.
Prosecutors said the killings occurred between 1992 and 2001 in central and northern California. Investigators later made a major breakthrough after an infant’s remains were discovered east of Woodland, about 20 miles from Sacramento, “weighted down and submerged in a cooler,” the release said…