Image via Wikipedia By Randy Economy
www.Economy4ABC.Blogspot.com
December 20, 2010
8:30 p.m.
SANTA ANA – It has been four long years since this horrific crime shook the Orange County community of Anaheim.
Tonight their is Justice in the murder of Gabirella Herrera.
Angel Duarte Cerna, 39, of Santa Ana, is going to be spending at least the next 25 years of his life, if not his entire life for the suffocation and murder of his wife Gaby, in Anaheim before dumping her body on the side of a freeway in Los Angeles County.
Cerna was found guilty by a jury Dec. 14, 2010, of one felony count of murder. On Monday he was formally sentenced for his crime.
If you recall, and if you don't remember, back in 2006, Cerna lived in Anaheim with his wife, Gabriella Herrera, and her two young sons from previous relationships.
In the early morning of Nov. 6, 2006, Cerna suffocated and murdered Herrera, then drove her body from Anaheim to Los Angeles County and dumped her on the side of California State Route 60.
After dumping the victim’s body, Cerna went to work that morning at a car dealership in Buena Park.
Herrera’s two children discovered the victim missing when they awoke for school and she wasn’t home. Family members reported the victim missing to the Anaheim Police Department (APD) that day and Herrera’s children were sent to stay with their biological fathers.
On Nov. 8, 2006, two days after the murder, Cerna moved out of his Anaheim home without telling anyone. On Nov. 10, 2006, Herrera’s unidentified body was discovered by law enforcement after receiving an anonymous tip. That same day, Cerna quit his job and told co-workers that he planned to move out of the country.
Herrera remained unidentified for several weeks until Dec. 30, 2006, when the Los Angeles County Coroner identified the body using Department of Motor Vehicle fingerprint records. Following an investigation by Anaheim Police Department, Cerna was arrested July 19, 2007, for the murder.
At the sentencing today, five family members of Gabriella Herrera told the court , "while the defendant received justice under man’s law, he will also receive justice under God’s law."
Amen to that. My heart goes out to the surviving members of this family. They have had to carry a heavy Cross these past four years, and I cannot imagine the grief that they must still experience.
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