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 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.
Child rapist gets life for 1980s murder of 2 Southern California boys
Kenneth Rasmuson in a March 2015 law enforcement booking photo provided by the Sheriff’s Office in Bonner County, Idaho.
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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, 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.
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