In a rare deviation from the controversial sentencing policies of Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón, prosecutors cemented a plea deal Monday expected to send a violent predator to prison for the rest of his life without the possibility of parole for the murders of 6-year-old Jeffrey Vargo of Anaheim Hills and another boy.
During a hearing in Pomona Courthouse South, Kenneth Kasten Rasmuson, 59, sat shackled at the waist next to his defense attorney and quietly pleaded no contest to two counts of murder with the special circumstance of multiple slayings.
A judge is expected to sentence Rasmuson to life in prison without parole during another hearing on April 27. He was accused of abducting Jeffrey near his home in 1981 and killing him in Agoura Hills. The second boy, 6-year-old Miguel Antero, was kidnapped in 1986 and his body was found dumped in an Agoura Hills canyon.
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