Former Santa Barbara pedophile gets life in prison for two murders
April 28, 2021
By JOSH FRIEDMAN
A Los Angeles County judge on Tuesday sentenced a convicted sex offender with Central Coast ties to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murders of two 6-year-old boys in the 80s.
As a teen, Kenneth Kasten Rasmuson lived in Santa Barbara County, where in 1981, he was convicted of sodomy of a child under 14.
Deemed a sexually violent predator, Rasmuson, 59, spent much of his adult life behind bars, yet he has still managed to kidnap and sexually abuse numerous children. Rasmuson lured or snatched boys off streets in their neighborhoods and even from their front yards.
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
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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.
POMONA, Calif.
A convicted child rapist who killed two 6-year-old boys in Southern California in the 1980s was sentenced 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.
Rasmuson abducted and killed 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.
His body was found the next day at a construction site in Pomona, in eastern Los Angeles County.
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“I had hoped to be at your execution because I wanted to look in your eyes and see the same terror that my son saw at his last moment,” the boy’s father, Bob Vargo, told Rasmuson at the sentencing hearing. “Because of your evil acts, the last time we saw our son was to view his scarred and lifeless body lying in a casket with his favorite toys,”
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 5 hours ago
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. Download our NBC Washington app for iOS or Android to get alerts for local breaking news and weather.
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.