The case marked the first criminal prosecution in Los Angeles County involving investigative genetic genealogy.
and dumped under bushes in Montclair, and the June 9, 1986, asphyxiation of Mary Duggan, a 22-year-old Reseda resident whose body was found in the trunk of her car in an empty parking lot in Burbank.
The prosecutor said Vaultz has been "unable to explain any of the evidence tying him to the murders in this case," including DNA evidence found on or in the bodies of each of the women, who were discovered either fully or partially nude."The defendant chose these victims," Silverman said. "The defendant is sitting here because he's a serial killer ... a sexual predator.
"If the evidence shows he's not guilty, which it does, do your duty," he told jurors, urging them to acquit Vaultz of both killings. "My semen means I may have had sex with the person. It doesn't mean I killed them," said Vaultz, a former Marine.Vaultz, by then a Bakersfield resident, was arrested in Inglewood during a November 2019 traffic stop by Burbank police in connection with the killings of Keough and Duggan.
After the verdict, the prosecutor said it was a "great moment to see the end of this reign of terror."
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