Chef who boiled wife's body guilty of murder

By Kevin Roderick | September 27, 2012 11:57 AM

The jury found Lomita chef David Viens guilty only of second-degree murder: willful and deliberate, but not premeditated. His sentence will be 15 years to life, says the Daily Breeze.


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