Horace Van Vaultz

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Horace Van Vaultz Jr. (born May 21, 1955) is an American serial killer who raped and killed at least three women in Southern California from 1981 to 1986. Vaultz retained numerous photographs of young girls and women, some of whom police suspect were victims, although he has not been charged with any other murder to date. Several of those who were photographed have been identified and confirmed to still be alive. Vaultz was arrested in 1987 for the murder of his final victim, 25-year-old Janna Rowe of Ventura, and he was acquitted at trial in 1988; his guilt in her murder would be established in 2019 through DNA evidence, which also linked him to two murders in Montclair and Burbank. He was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in 2022 and sentenced to life in prison without parole.

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