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People v. Robinson12/11/2000
er Sunday. On that occasion, defendant picked Gloria up at her residence. Defendant had also called Gloria at home on the telephone on a number of occasions prior to April 23, 1996. After that date, defendant never called the residence again.
On April 20, 1996, Gloria spent the day with her mother. Before her performance at a concert that night, she took a long bath. Her mother accompanied her to the concert and they returned home together later that night. During the next day, April 21, Gloria and her mother spent the day together. On April 21, Gloria took another bubble bath before going to a nightclub in Oxnard to perform at another concert. She was accompanied to the concert by her mother and sister. Gloria then went to perform at another concert that night in Santa Barbara. She then drove home with one of the band members and went to bed around 3:00 a.m. on April 22.
Gloria woke up at about 11:00 a.m. on April 22, and spent the rest of the day at home with her mother. At about 10:30 p.m., Gloria went to her room to go to sleep. When her mother woke up the next day on April 23, Gloria was gone. Gloria's mother waited for her to return, and when she had not returned on April 24, her mother and sister started looking for her and also notified the Oxnard Police Department that Gloria was missing. The police told her mother to wait 72 hours because Gloria was 18 years old. On April 29, her mother filed a missing person's report.
On or near the same day she filed the missing person's report, Gloria's mother saw defendant in an elevator. She informed defendant that Gloria was missing, but defendant did not react. Defendant said he would help find Gloria, but he never called after that. Gloria's mother did not find out from the authorities that Gloria was dead until May 10, 1996.
Gloria's lifeless body had been discovered on April 23, 1996, the same day she was noticed missing by her mother. Her body was found in a dumpster in an alley between Pico Boulevard and Alcott Street in Los Angeles. At about 5:00 a.m. on the morning of April 23, a woman who lived by the alley heard a car enter the alley "rather fast." She heard a "screeching" of tires , a car door open, and the sound of footsteps on the gravel. She then heard the steel lid of the dumpster open, and soon after that she heard the lid of the dumpster slam shut. She then heard the car speed out of the alley.
The police arrived at the scene and secured the area until the homicide detectives arrived. Los Angeles Police Homicide Detective Paul Coulter was one of the first detectives to arrive. He observed Gloria's body inside the dumpster laying on her right side in a fetal position. Her body was clothed in a blouse and slacks, but had no shoes on. He smelled the odor of gasoline emanating from the dumpster. He noticed that a fire had been lit in the dumpster, and an empty book of matches and some charred paper that had been used to light the fire were recovered from the area.
Stephanie Winter-Sermeno, a criminalist working for the Los Angeles County Coroner in the forensic science laboratory, arrived at the scene of the dumpster at about 10:00 a.m. She also detected the odor of gasoline in the area of the dumpster and observed several charred items. She directed that Gloria's body be removed and taken to the coroner's office for examination. She then conducted an examination of the body at the coroner's office. She determined that the body had been tied in an intricate fashion with a yellow rope, which she characterized as a ligature. The rope was wrapped once around the neck and knotted under the chin. It then extended to the right wrist where it was wrapped twice and knotted. It was then wr
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