Juan Carlos Ortega is accused of killing estranged wife Veronica Soto Ortega and her sister Ana Gabriela Soto, who was found dead in a burning SUV in Escondido in 2018
Firefighters made a gruesome discovery when they doused a fire in an SUV outside Escondido in August 2018. The body of Ana Gabriela Soto, 26, was hidden in the back of the vehicle. She had been shot.
His defense attorney told the jury that the deadly encounter with the sisters was self-defense, saying Ortega’s sister-in-law had put a knife to Ortega’s throat.Attorneys gave their opening statements Tuesday in the trial for Ortega, now 38, who has pleaded not guilty to two counts of murder, with special-circumstance allegations of lying in wait and committing multiple murders.
Dang told the jury the defendant shot his sister-in-law and cut her throat, and stabbed his wife to death. She said he then “shoved” his sister-in-law’s body into the back of his wife’s Ford Equinox and drove off, tossing out Soto’s cellphone along the way. Rumble, the defense lawyer, told the jury that Ortega’s family was central to his life, and that he’d tried to kill himself several months earlier after his marriage crumbled. He said Ortega moved out of the apartment and was living in his car. He’d also been sneaking into the apartment and taking his wife’s underwear.
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