July 15, 2010
Parolee convicted in stabbing murder of elderly couple
Seven years after Alfredo Montez Valenzuela climbed through a window of an elderly couple's home and brutally stabbed them to death, a jury Wednesday found the Monrovia parolee guilty of first-degree murder.
The attorneys for Alfredo Montez Valenzuela, 38, expressed no surprise at the verdict: Court testimony showed Valenzuela had confessed to police he killed Charles "Clark" Shaum and his wife Bernice Shaum.
Jurors began deliberating Tuesday.
"This verdict was not surprising to us at all," said attorney Michael Adelson, who acknowledged during the trial that his client had indeed committed the crimes...
LINK - PasadenaStarNews.com
