NORTH HOLLYWOOD : Tip From Convicted Rapist Leads Police to Body
Acting on information provided by a man already sentenced to life in prison for torturing and raping a woman in a North Hollywood warehouse, police dug up an unidentified body in the same warehouse Wednesday morning.
Attorneys in the case said police searched the building after interviewing James Thomas Hernandez, 31, who was sentenced last week to life in prison without parole for abducting and torturing a woman in March.
Throughout the trial, prosecutors said Hernandez also was a suspect in the disappearance of his live-in girlfriend, Pamela Hensley, a woman in her mid-20s who was last seen in late 1992.
Police refused to identify the body discovered Wednesday, but an attorney for Hernandez commented that “anyone can put two and two together.”
He said his client would plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter and be sentenced to 11 years in prison for the new crime--to no effect because he is already serving a life term.
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