POMONA, Calif.—A man who doused the mother of his four children with gasoline and set her on fire during a domestic dispute in Pomona on Christmas Day 2015 was sentenced Nov. 30 to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Clarence Durell Dear, 58, was convicted in October of first-degree murder, and jurors found true a special-circumstance allegation of murder involving the infliction of torture of Dawn Hensley.
Deputy District Attorney Phil Stirling said two of the couple’s sons—who were 12 and 19 at the time—witnessed the crime.
The 41-year-old woman was chased, doused with gasoline, and lit on fire with a cigarette lighter, then kicked while she was on the ground, Stirling said….