Ortega was accused of stabbing his wife Veronica Soto to death, and stabbing and shooting her sister Ana Gabriella Soto before putting her body in her SUV and setting it on fire.
Juan Carlos Ortega, 38, was convicted by a Vista jury last month of first-degree murder for the August 2018 deaths of 30-year-old Veronica Soto Ortega and 26-year-old Ana Soto.
Get San Diego local news, weather forecasts, sports and lifestyle stories to your inbox.Prosecutors said Ortega killed the women at his wife's apartment just after 3 a.m. Both victims' bodies were discovered miles apart from each other on Aug. 9, 2018. Escondido Police Department Detective Ross Umstot testified in a preliminary hearing Veronica Soto was found in her small Escondido apartment with multiple stab wounds and Ana Soto was found in a burned SUV with stab wounds and a gunshot through the heart. Ortega's two children, then ages 4 and 5, were found unharmed in the apartment.
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