
"Paul Allen Perez, 63, was convicted Tuesday of multiple counts of murder and one count of assault of a child under 8 with force likely to produce great bodily injury resulting in death, according to a Yolo County district attorney's office news release. He faces life in prison without the possibility of parole and is scheduled to be sentenced April 6."
"On March 29, 2007, the body of an infant was found by a fisherman in a waterway east of Woodland, according to a Yolo County Sheriff's Office news release. The baby was found in a sealed container and weighed down with heavy objects. About 12 years later, in October 2019, authorities used DNA to identify the remains as Nikko Lee Perez, according to the Sheriff's Office release."
Paul Allen Perez, 63, was convicted of multiple counts of murder and one count of assault of a child under 8 with force likely to produce great bodily injury resulting in death. He faces life in prison without the possibility of parole and is scheduled to be sentenced April 6. Perez killed five infant children between 1992 and 2001 in Northern and Central California. The remains of an infant were found submerged in a sealed container in a waterway east of Woodland on March 29, 2007; the remains were weighed down with heavy objects. DNA identified the remains in October 2019 as Nikko Lee Perez, born Nov. 8, 1996. Other named children include Kato Allen Perez (born Merced, 1992), Mika Alena Perez (born Merced, 1995), and Kato Krow Perez (born Fresno, 2001). The children's mother, Yolanda Perez, detailed abuse and threats of rape during trial.
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