Car Salesman Killer Gets 27 Years to Life Sentence
A transient who murdered a car salesman during a test drive last year was sentenced Friday to 27 years to life in state prison.
Yale Booska was convicted Aug. 6 of one count each of first-degree murder, robbery, larceny of a motor vehicle and driving a car without the owner’s consent.
Prosecutors said Booska, 32, shot and killed Charles Washington, a salesman for Barish Chrysler-Plymouth in Los Angeles, during a test drive of a new car on April 17, 1989.
Booska was arrested three days later in Seward County, Neb. He was driving the car. Washington’s body was found by a hiker on July 9, 1989, in the desert north of Palm Springs.
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