USA - California. Jury Urges Death Penalty for Steven Dean Gordon

An Orange County Jury Urges Death Penalty for Steven Dean Gordon, 47, White. Gordon is a California sex offender who abducted and killed 4 women over 6 months while wearing an electronic monitoring device. Orange County Superior Court Judge Patrick Donahue will make the final decision Feb. 3. Gordon, who confessed his role in the killings to police, was convicted last week of murdering 4 women with ties to prostitution in 2012 and 2013. Jurors found special circumstances of murder during a kidnapping and multiple murders, making him eligible for the death penalty. 1 of the victim's bodies was found at a recycling center in Anaheim, and investigators later tied the case to the earlier disappearance of 3 other women in Southern California. Their bodies have never been found. Authorities say Gordon was wearing a GPS tracking device for prior offenses during 3 of the slayings and carried them out with fellow sex offender Franc Cano, 30, who is being tried separately. He has pleaded not guilty. They were charged with the deaths of Jarrae Nykkole Estepp, 21, and 3 women who went missing in Santa Ana - Kianna Jackson, 20, Josephine Monique Vargas, 34 and Martha Anaya, 28. DNA samples from Estepp's body matched Cano's and Gordon's genetic material, authorities said.