California husband and wife plead guilty to killing wife’s boyfriend

A married California couple who are accused of killing the wife’s boyfriend have agreed to a plea deal in their homicide case.

After midnight on Dec. 18, 2025, Clovis police received a 911 call for a man found badly beaten on a canal near Barstow and Peach avenues. First responders found Geoffrey Bernardi, 37, fighting for his life, alone at the canal. He was transported to a hospital where loved ones gathered to see him; among those visitors, according to his mother, was his girlfriend, 32-year-old Misty Gomez.

The couple had met a few months prior on a dating app, and Bernardi was already hoping she would be his future wife, Bernardi’s mother told KSEE. When detectives spoke to Gomez, she allegedly told them she believed Bernardi had been attacked by a homeless person. But that story quickly unraveled, Clovis police said…

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