A California man was convicted of savagely stabbing his ex-girlfriend to dying — with the lady’s ultimate moments recorded on a chilling voicemail.
Laura Sardinha, 25, was killed by her ex-boyfriend Craig Charron, 39, in Sept. 2020 on the identical day she’d modified the locks on her doorways and after lastly taking out a restraining order towards him — as had a number of different ladies earlier than her, based on the Los Angeles Occasions.
She was on the telephone together with her mom and her finest buddy when he immediately appeared in her Huntington Seashore residence armed with a number of knives.
“Oh my God, he’s here,” blurted them earlier than her buddy hung up and known as 911. Sardinha tried to name her again and left behind a disturbing 37-second voicemail through which she screams “He’s gonna kill me!”
“Get away from me!” she will be heard yelling within the audio recording.
“If you listen to it carefully, you hear a woman narrating her own murder,” Orange County Deputy Dist. Atty. Janine Madera mentioned in her closing statements at Charron’s trial in Santa Ana on Tuesday, simply earlier than he was discovered responsible of homicide, The Occasions reported.
Charron attacked Sardinha with a number of knives.
He practically sliced her nostril off, stabbed her twice within the chest and plunged a tomato knife into her head with such pressure the blade bent.
When police arrived on the scene they discovered Sardinha lifeless and Charron bleeding from stab wounds to his chest and neck — which Madera argued have been self-inflicted to make it seem as if Sardinha had attacked him.
Charron is an Air Power Veteran.
Sardinha had instructed a buddy the morning of the day she was murdered that Charron woke her up and demanded oral intercourse.
She recorded a video of herself saying “please get away from me” and complaining that he by no means leaves.
Simply earlier than midday she went to the residence advanced’s leasing workplace to request her locks be modified.
Whereas she was there, the residence supervisor let her disguise contained in the constructing after he noticed Charron approaching.
A upkeep man later modified her locks. It’s unclear how Charron obtained again inside, however almost definitely the door was left unlocked, prosecutors mentioned.
Charron took the stand throughout the trial the place he mentioned he’s a former fight medic and VA psychiatric affected person.
He recalled little of that day however claimed he stabbed her in self protection after she attacked him.
Three of Charron’s ex-girlfriends testified that they’d taking out restraining orders towards him over his bodily abuse — together with one who claimed he choked her and hit her on the pinnacle with a win bottle.
Madera described Sardinha’s dying as “cold-hearted murder” and pointed to the disturbing silence from Charron within the voicemail.
“You don’t hear the defendant on it, and his silence is absolutely deafening,” she mentioned. “He’s enjoying taking his time killing her.”
