A man accused of abducting and killing two young Tucson girls separately and dumping their bodies in the desert was convicted of first-degree murder and kidnapping in the first of his two trials.
in 2018 and indicted on 22 felony counts including two counts each of first-degree murder and kidnapping in the deaths of Gonzales and 6-year-old Isabel Celis.and will face a different jury for the Celis case with that trial scheduled to start Feb. 2.Celis vanished from her parents’ home in April 2012 while Gonzalez disappeared while walking to a friend’s house in June 2014.
Jurors got the case late Wednesday afternoon after Pima County prosecutor Tracy Miller said in her closing argument there was a "mountain of circumstantial evidence" in the case and "it is not a coincidence that all these pieces of the puzzle point directly to Christopher Clements." According to Miller, male DNA was found on hair samples taken from Gonzalez’s body and the match is good enough to say Clements cannot be excluded as the source.
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