Man Sentenced To Death For Killing Two People In A Bid To Raise Money For Expensive Wedding And Honeymoon


A man from Southern California who murdered two people and dismembered one of them as part of a plot to steal money to pay for his wedding and honeymoon was on Friday sentenced to death .

John Conley Orange County Superior Court Judge  had followed the recommendation of a jury in January after an extensive deliberation.The jury had reached a decision in December that the suspect Daniel Patrick Wozniak, should be put to death.

Delivering the judgement, Judge Conley said: 'At the cost of two human lives, the defendant chose not to get married inexpensively or to defer his honeymoon,' .
'He wanted to do it in style, and he was willing to kill two people he knew to accomplish this.'


Samuel Herr                                            


Julie Kibuishi 

Wozniak was debt-ridden in 2010 when he shot a neighbor, Samuel Herr of Costa Mesa, to steal $50,000 the Army veteran had saved from service in Afghanistan, prosecutors said.Wozniak then used a ruse to kill Herr's friend, Julie Kibuishi, and tried to make it appear Herr had raped and killed her, then fled, prosecutors said. He also dumped Herr's dismembered body in a park. The intrigue were however unraveled, and Wozniak was nabbed days later.

Conley revisited many of the case's grisly details before the sentencing. 'Suffice it to say that even his defense attorney was constrained to calling it horrible, terrible and horrific,' the judge pointed out.

The likelihood Wozniak will be executed anytime soon is slim because of challenges over the California's death penalty. No one has been put to death since 2006, and there are nearly 750 inmates on death row at San Quentin, where he is now headed.

As some of his son's fellow veterans of Afghanistan stood at his side, Herr's father, Steve Herr, said in court Friday that it's unfortunate the execution won't come quickly.

Steven Herr, Raquel Herr

The father of Samuel Herr, pointed his finger toward Daniel Wozniak as he speaks in Superior Court

In his words: You Dan are a coward and a poster boy for the need for an effective death penalty in California,' 

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