Week in Review : MAJOR EVENTS, IMAGES AND PEOPLE IN ORANGE COUNTY NEWS : COURTS : Slayer of ‘Bee Lady’ Gets 25 Years to Life
A 25-year-old Anaheim man who killed an elderly woman known as the “Bee Lady” and her daughter in a nighttime robbery at their home received the maximum sentence last week: 25 years to life.
Edward Barrios, who had pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, was the last of three men convicted in the deaths of Elizabeth Schafer, who still raised bees and worked an avocado garden at age 96, and her 69-year-old daughter.
On Aug. 17, 1983, Barrios and two others bound and gagged the women and ransacked the house looking for money. The victims, who were discovered the following morning, died of asphyxiation.
Jerry Uloa and Oscar Torres, who were 16 at the time of the slayings, are serving sentences with the California Youth Authority for the crime.
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