Convicted Sex Offender Sentenced to Life in Prison for 1980s Murders of Two 6-Year-Old Boys Kenneth Kasten Rasmuson, now 59, was arrested in Idaho in 2015 after a DNA hit connected him to one of the slayings
Published April 27, 2021
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A convicted sex offender was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders of two 6-year-old Southern California boys in the 1980s.
The sentence for Kenneth Kasten Rasmuson, now 59, was handed down following a series of emotional statements from the families of Jeffrey Vargo and Miguel Antero. Download our mobile app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
A convicted child rapist who killed two six-year-old boys in Southern California in the 1980s was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Kenneth Rasmuson, 59, showed no emotion as he was sentenced in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Pomona over the abduction and killing of Jeffrey Vargo and Miguel Antero in the 1980s. He had pleaded no-contest in February.
Rasmuson murdered 6-year-old Jeffrey Vargo, who disappeared on July 2, 1981, after he left his house in Anaheim Hills in Orange County to look at a fireworks stand.
Rasmuson (pictured in court in February) has previously spent 17 years in prison for the separate abuse of an 11-year-old boy in Santa Barbara County and a three-year-old boy in Los Angeles
Miguel s body was found in a wash in Agoura Hills on April 8, 1986, the same day he went missing from his Agoura Hills home.
Rasmuson was arrested in Idaho in 2015 after a DNA hit connected him to Jeffrey s killing, and he was subsequently linked to Miguel s slaying. He pleaded no contest Feb. 22 to two counts of murder and admitted the special circumstance allegation of multiple murders.
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer made the highly unusual move earlier that month to charge Rasmuson for Jeffrey s killing, even though the defendant was already facing trial for that murder in Los Angeles County.
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Kenneth Kasten Rasmuson, confessed to killing two boys and raping many others during the brief time of his life when he was freed from jail. A judge sentenced home to prison for life Tuesday. (Shutterstock)
POMONA, CA A convicted sex offender was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders of two 6-year-old Southland boys in the 1980s.
Superior Court Judge Juan Carlos Dominguez handed down the sentence for 59-year-old Kenneth Kasten Rasmuson, who was also ordered to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life, following a series of emotional statements from the families of Jeffrey Vargo and Miguel Antero.
Convicted Sex Offender Sentenced to Life in Prison for 1980s Murders of Two 6-Year-Old Boys Kenneth Kasten Rasmuson, now 59, was arrested in Idaho in 2015 after a DNA hit connected him to one of the slayings
Published April 27, 2021
GETTY
A convicted sex offender was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders of two 6-year-old Southern California boys in the 1980s.
The sentence for Kenneth Kasten Rasmuson, now 59, was handed down following a series of emotional statements from the families of Jeffrey Vargo and Miguel Antero.
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