Christopher Cater因杀害72岁的Sheila Ortega并将其藏匿在她的SUV中而被定罪,然后利用她的身份偷窃。 Christopher Cater convicted of killing and hiding 72-year-old Sheila Ortega in her SUV, then using her identity to steal.

西南路易斯安那州43岁的Christopher Cater被判犯有一级谋杀罪和2023年72岁的Sheila Ortega死亡时非法丢弃遗骸罪,他将尸体放在SUV中将近一个月。 Christopher Cater, 43, of southwest Louisiana, has been convicted of first-degree murder and unlawful disposal of remains in the 2023 death of 72-year-old Sheila Ortega, whose body he kept in her SUV for nearly a month. 检察官说,他在醉酒时杀死了她,当时她受到钝器创伤,后来又用她的身份开放贷款,并刷新信用卡。 Prosecutors said he killed her while intoxicated using blunt force trauma and later used her identity to open loans and max out her credit cards. 证据包括谷歌搜索尸体处置情况以及精神错乱的辩护。 Evidence included Google searches about disposing of bodies and the insanity defense. 在查尔斯湖停车场发现Cater的车辆与她腐烂的尸体一起被发现后,Cater被捕。 Cater was arrested after his vehicle was found with her decomposed body in a Lake Charles parking lot. 他在2025年10月7日面临判刑。 He faces sentencing on October 7, 2025.