SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 37-year-old man was sentenced April 7 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for beating and strangling a woman to death before he dumped her body in Irvine and set it afire 13 years ago.
Zenaido Baldivia-Guzman was convicted Nov. 15 of murder, along with a special-circumstance allegation of murder committed during a kidnapping. He has spent 4,536 days in custody so far as a result.
The defendant was previously tried in 2016, but it ended in a mistrial when jurors deadlocked 11–1 in favor of guilt on the first-degree murder charge.
The defendant’s brother, Gabino Baldivia-Guzman, is awaiting trial. He is alleged to have participated in disposing of the body….