A jury convicted an 86-year-old former restaurant employee of murdering two people more than three decades ago at a family-run diner in Prunedale, Monterey County prosecutors said.
In a statement Tuesday, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office said jurors found Ira Bastian guilty of two counts of first-degree murder for the 1991 killings of George Smith, 67, and his mother-in-law, Eva Thompson, 79. They also upheld special-circumstance allegations that Bastian committed multiple murders and killed during a burglary, and that he used a knife in the crimes.
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