El Cajon

A convicted con man who romanced an El Cajon woman who disappeared in 1989 was found guilty Monday of first-degree murder in her death.

Raymond Stone, 42, was also found guilty of robbing and kidnaping Anita Dalfoss, 50, whose skeletal remains were discovered near Lake Henshaw in July, 1989.

The San Diego Superior Court jury also found that there were special circumstances surrounding the murder, meaning Stone will probably receive a sentence of life in state prison without possibility of parole.

Judge Herbert Exarhos set sentencing for April 22.

Stone was also convicted of six other counts of grand theft, petty theft and auto theft involving other victims, including a 75-year-old woman who uses a walker and who discovered her Social Security check missing after Stone paid her a visit.

He is already serving a 9-year sentence for grand theft and burglary convictions involving other women he romanced and stole from in 1989.

His attorney, Sharyn Leonard, argued that Dalfoss’s death was not the result of murder but just “another mark . . . who for some reason happened to die.”

Leonard told jurors in opening and closing arguments that her client was “a thief, a liar, and a gigolo,” but that Stone never resorted to violence in defrauding people.