The jury found Mario Garcia GUILTY for the disappearance and murder of Christie Wilson who vanished on Oct. 5, 2005. Her body is still missing. Christie's mother tells me that they are still searching for Christie's body. Maybe now that this man has been convicted, he will reveal the location?
SACRAMENTO – Jurors on Tuesday convicted an Auburn man of murdering a woman who disappeared more than a year ago after the two were seen flirting at a Placer County casino.
The body of 27-year-old Christie Wilson has never been found. Mario Flavio Garcia was charged based on DNA evidence found in his car and a security videotape that showed him leaving the Thunder Valley Casino near Roseville with Wilson on Oct. 5, 2005.
Garcia, 54, faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Witnesses said he and Wilson gambled together and flirted much of the evening. But Garcia told jurors he drove home alone after walking the Sacramento woman to her car. He said Wilson was never in his vehicle.
Prosecution experts testified that hair and blood found in Garcia's car matched Wilson's DNA.
Garcia took the stand in his own defense to testify that he was not responsible for Wilson's disappearance. He said scratches on his chest came when he fell from a tree he was trimming on his property.
Placer County Deputy District Attorney Garen Horst told jurors the scratches were from Wilson's attempts to fight off her attacker.
Garcia's attorney, Ron Peters, said investigators ignored evidence in their rush to implicate Garcia, including a witness who testified that he may have seen Wilson alive the morning after she left the casino.
The case was tried in Sacramento County because of pretrial publicity in neighboring Placer County. Jurors took just more than a day to reach their verdict.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20061121-1808-ca-casinoslaying.html
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