Escondido
A 24-year-old man who admitted killing his mistress was sentenced Thursday to 26 years to life in prison.
Filomeno Huerta, 24, was convicted of murder Jan. 11 in the Sept. 5, 1989, slaying of Silvia Flores, 23, also from Escondido.
San Diego Superior Court Judge William Kennedy also fined Huerta $200.
In an interview with the Probation Department, Huerta said he killed the woman because “anger overcame me.” He denied planning to kill Flores earlier.
She was stabbed and had her head smashed against a concrete block. Her badly decomposed body was found Sept. 16 in a drainage ditch off San Pasqual Road near the San Diego Wild Animal Park.
Huerta said he believed that Flores had told his wife about their affair, causing his wife to go back to Mexico.
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