Sep 7, 2007 8:20 pm US/Pacific
Long Beach Man Guilty Of Arranging Wife's Murder
LONG BEACH, Calif. (CBS) ―
A Long Beach man was convicted Friday of first-degree murder for orchestrating the 2004 throat-slashing death of his estranged wife in order to avoid a divorce settlement.
Manfred Schockner, 67, will be sentenced Oct. 10 and is facing life in prison without the possibility of parole.
When the verdict was read, relatives of Lynn Schockner cried out, "Yes!"
The Schnckners' teenage son, Charlie, spoke in court after the verdict was read, telling his father, "I disclaim all relations to you. ... I will never be your son."
Frankie Fidel Jaramillo, 29, of Woodland Hills, and Nicholas Alexander Harvey, 22, of Port Hueneme, are both already serving life prison terms for the Nov. 8, 2004, slaying of Lynn Schockner, 50.
Harvey killed the woman, and told police he had been offered $5,000 to kill the woman and stage a burglary. Jaramillo, a business associate of Manfred Schockner, arranged the killing at Schockner's request.
Harvey slashed Lynn Schockner's throat as police checking a prowler call waited at the victim's front door for the woman to bring a gate key at her home in the 1100 block of Ardmore Drive.
Almost immediately after the murder, the three conspirators were in contact with each other, police said.
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