LOS ANGELES : Man Sentenced to Life Term in Woman’s Murder
A 20-year-old man has been convicted of strangling and raping his landlady before dropping her body down a trash chute has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.
Describing the murder as “extremely violent and callous,” Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Jacqueline Connor said Friday that Alfonso Waldemar Matas deserved to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
Matas was 17 on Nov. 13, 1991, when he lured 36-year-old Yun Chang inside the Hollywood apartment he shared with his mother in the 1600 block of North Wilton Place. The Hollywood High School student was found guilty of striking Chang on the head and strangling her when she tried to flee. Matas then raped Chang before dropping her head-first down the building’s four-story trash chute.
Chang’s nude body was found in the trash dumpster inside the building’s underground garage and Matas confessed to the killing, prosecutors said.
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