A debt-ridden actor who killed two of his friends and dismembered one of them as part of a plot to steal money to pay for his wedding and honeymoon has been sentenced to death.
Daniel Patrick Wozniak, 32, will be put on death for the slaying of Afghanistan war veteran Samuel Herr and Julie Kibuishi in Southern California in 2010.
Orange County Superior Court Judge John Conley followed the recommendation of a jury he should be executed following the grisly deaths and his attempted cover-up.
Jurors had convicted Wozniak of the murders in December. A month later, a jury told prosecutors he should face capital punishment.“At the cost of two human lives, the defendant chosenot to get married inexpensively or to defer his honeymoon,” Conley said.
He wanted to do it in style, and he was willing to kill two people he knew to accomplish this.”Wozniak was debt-ridden in 2010 when he shot a neighbor, Herr of Costa Mesa, to steal $50,000 the Army veteran had saved from service in Afghanistan,prosecutors said.
Wozniak then used a ruse to kill Herr’s friend, Julie Kibuishi, and tried to make it appear Herr had raped and killed her, then fled, prosecutors said.
He also dumped Herr’s dismembered body in a park.The scheme unraveled, and Wozniak was arrested days later.
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