RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Cynthia Alvarez and Giovanni Gallardo: Teens Charged with Murdering Girl’s Parents Gloria Villalta, 58, and her stepfather, Jose Lara, 51. Deceased couple found in shallow graves in Norwalk and LB

Friday, October 21, 2011

Cynthia Alvarez and Giovanni Gallardo: Teens Charged with Murdering Girl’s Parents Gloria Villalta, 58, and her stepfather, Jose Lara, 51. Deceased couple found in shallow graves in Norwalk and LB

By Randy Economy
Reporter
Los Cerritos Community News
www.loscerritosnews.net

Burial location where the body of Gloria Villata of Compton was found along Norwalk Boulevard Randy Economy Photo

Los Cerritos Community News was the first news agency in Southern California to report on the brutal double murder of two lifeless bodies found in shallow graves in vacant lots in Long Beach and Norwalk. Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office has filed murder charges in the deaths of Gloria Villalta, 58, and Jose Lara, 51, the couple who was killed and placed in two different shallow graves in vacant lots near Metropolitan State Hospital, and in Long Beach, near Atlantic and Artesia Boulevard. A 15-year-old girl and her 16-year-old boyfriend were arraigned on Friday on special circumstance murder charges after the pair allegedly killed the girl’s parents over ongoing friction that included friction over her dating her boyfriend, the District Attorney’s office announced. The teens, both from Compton, are being charged as adults. Cynthia Alvarez, and Giovanni Gallardo, are charged in case TA120456 with two counts each of murder with the special circumstances of lying in wait and multiple murders, said Deputy District Attorney Todd Hicks. Each is being held without bail. Because of their ages, prosecutors will not seek the death penalty. However, if convicted, each faces life in prison without possibility of parole. Prosecutors said the teens allegedly killed the girl’s mother, Villalta, and her stepfather, Lara, sometimes between Oct. 13 and 15 in the family’s Compton home. The pair allegedly attacked the mother first when she arrived home from work, killing her. They then allegedly hid the body and waited for the father to come home. When he arrived, they allegedly hit him repeatedly with a baseball bat and stabbed him. The teens then allegedly loaded the bodies in a car and dumped the bodies in shallow graves in separate areas, one along Norwalk Boulevard and the other along Artesia Boulevard near Atlantic. Hicks said police discovered the woman’s body Saturday in a shallow grave in a vacant lot in Norwalk. The man’s body was discovered Thursday in a shallow grave in a lot near Jordan High School in Long Beach. Los Cerritos Community News will have more information on this crime at www.loscerritosnews.net

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You may know me from my role as the Senior Advisor and Official Media Spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign that established a worldwide blitz of interviews. I conducted more than 2,200 media interviews on behalf of “The People’s Recall” during a 10-month period from November 2020 to September 2021. The iconic magazine Mother Jones in a dramatic feature article called me “A ‘Superhero Pirate’ Radio Host, (and) Gavin Newsom’s Strangest—and Most Dangerous—Threat. Meet Randy Economy, the man behind the effort to recall California’s governor.” I appeared on more than 330 media outlets around the world in my capacity with RecallGavin2020. Fox News, CNN, MSNBC, Newsmax, NBC Nightly News, ABC News, as well as the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Politico, and dozens of other media outlets aired featured reports on my work on behalf of “The People’s Recall.” I am and will always consider myself to be a journalist. Sometimes I think I bleed ink. My talents as an Investigative Journalists in California earned me FIVE top awards from the prestigious Los Angeles Press Club in 2013, 2014, and 2016. I am tenacious. My reporting over the years has led to the prosecution of several elected officials in California. While working for a tiny community newspaper in Southeast Los Angeles County, I worked doggedly to expose the biggest public corruption case in Los Angeles County history when I unearthed a massive pay to play scheme inside the Assessor’s Office that led to the arrest of then Assessor John R. Noguez and four others. However, politics has been in my DNA since I was a child. I have worked on more than 300 political campaigns as a consultant and advisor since 1982 for candidates from all sides of the political spectrum including Democrats and Republicans, and even Libertarians. I am also a small business owner, serving as the President and CEO of Hot Water Studio & Production, LLC. My company works with media outlets across the state, nation, and world exposing public corruption via several new media platforms. I have also overcome personal challenges. I am legally blind with zero vision in my right eye and only 40 percent vision remaining in my left eye. I sometimes wear an eyepatch due to my failed vision. (Hence the nickname of “America’s Political Pirate.”

Friday, October 21, 2011

Cynthia Alvarez and Giovanni Gallardo: Teens Charged with Murdering Girl’s Parents Gloria Villalta, 58, and her stepfather, Jose Lara, 51. Deceased couple found in shallow graves in Norwalk and LB

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