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Miguel Bustamante, who was convicted again of killing a Palm Springs retiree in a financial-enrichment scheme, gets life sentence.

Daniel Garcia was first convicted in 2012 in the death of Clifford Lambert, who he met through an online dating site.

Jurors today reached a verdict in the retrial against a 41-year-old man who is suspected in the financially motivated killing of a Palm Springs retiree in 2008.

Jurors today reached a verdict in the retrial against a 41-year-old man who is suspected in the financially motivated killing of a Palm Springs retiree in 2008.

Prosecutors have said half a dozen men took part in the killing.

After deliberating for almost two days, jurors ended the week without reaching a verdict in the retrial of a 40-year-old man accused of killing a Palm Springs retiree in a financial-enrichment scheme and dumping his body by Interstate 5 while en route to Daly City.   

A suspect who was set to be retried in a sensational 2008 killing is found dead in a Riverside jail. Another inmate is charged with murder, deputies say.

Trial date set For man accused in 2008 Palm Springs retiree slaying Trial date set For man accused in 2008 Palm Springs retiree slaying A May 14 trial date was set today for one of four men granted a retrial on charges stemming from the 2008 financially motivated killing of a Palm Springs retiree in which they were previously convicted. Daniel Carlos Garcia, 38, and three others were granted a retrial last year following allegations that the judge who had pr...

Garcia and Niroula were convicted in September 2012 of murder, conspiracy and other charges stemming from the stabbing death of 74-year-old Clifford Lambert, who was attacked in the kitchen of his Palm Springs home on Dec. 5, 2008. Both men represented themselves during the trial and were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Replogle and Bustamante were convicted in January 2011 of murder and eight other felony counts, and both were also sentenced to life in prison wit...