
Her body was found in the trunk of her car in a parking lot in the Los Angeles suburb of Burbank. Vaultz was convicted of killing 22-year-old Mary Duggan in 1986. He could face life in prison without the possibility of parole when he is sentenced next month. Vaultz, a former Bakersfield resident, has been jailed since his 2019 arrest.



Horace Van Vaultz Jr., 67, was found guilty of first-degree murder with the special circumstance allegations that the crimes involved multiple murders, rape and sodomy, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office said in a statement. LOS ANGELES - A California man prosecutors called a serial killer was convicted Thursday of raping and killing two women in the 1980s after investigators linked him to DNA evidence, prosecutors said.
