A Fairfax County jury told Alfredo R. Prieto

A Fairfax County jury told Alfredo R. Prieto that he should die twice for killing a young couple, Warren H. Fulton III and Rachael A. Raver. The girl was raped as she lay dying. The victims were just 22 when their bodies were discovered Dec. 6, 1988.
Virginia will now contend with California to see which would be the 1st to get Prieto, 42, to the death chamber. In 1992, Prieto was convicted of raping and murdering a 15-year-old girl, Yvette Woodruff, in September 1990 in California., but his appeals could stretch nearly 10 more years. In Virginia, they could be exhausted in 5.
The death sentences will be imposed or reduced to a life sentence without parole May 23 by Fairfax Circuit Court Judge Randy I. Bellows.
The case for Prieto's guilt was made almost entirely on DNA. Police had no suspects after Raver's and Fulton's bodies were found, and police had many years of dead ends. Then, in 2005, while Prieto was on San Quentin State Prison's death row, his DNA was entered into a national database. It matched the semen on Raver's body as well as that left on Veronica Jefferson 's body in May 1988. Prieto has not been tried in Jefferson's slaying.