Man Found Guilty of Killing Girl, 3
From a Times Staff Writer
SANTA ANA —
Michael Robert Pacewitz, a former mental patient who said he killed a 3-year-old girl because he thought she was Satan, was found guilty Wednesday of first-degree murder.
Pacewitz, 21, also was found guilty of the attempted murder of his mother and assault with a deadly weapon on her boyfriend in a separate incident at their Anaheim apartment in March. That stabbing attack occurred only hours before the girl was stabbed 44 times at her Fullerton home.
The jurors return today to determine whether Pacewitz was sane at the time of the killing.
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