Sunday, January 30, 2011

French Valley, CA: Ca. man pleads not guilty to strangling girlfriend

Posted: 01/29/2011 06:53:09 PM PST
Updated: 01/29/2011 06:53:09 PM PST

FRENCH VALLEY, Calif.—A registered sex offender charged with strangling his girlfriend and driving to a Southern California sheriff's station with her body in his trunk has pleaded not guilty to murder.
Thirty-year-old Jason Richard Budrow entered the plea in a Riverside County court on Friday.
Budrow is charged with murder and a special circumstance of lying in wait, making him eligible for the death penalty.
Authorities say Budrow appeared at the Lake Elsinore sheriff's station on Oct. 22 with the body of the woman he had been dating—48-year-old Margret Dalton of Perris—in the trunk.
In a jailhouse interview with the Riverside Press-Enterprise shortly after his arrest, Budrow said he had to kill Dalton because he feared she was a police informant.
He is being held without bail.

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