11 July 2019 :

A Riverside jury Tuesday recommended the death penalty for Rigoberto Villanueva, 42. Last month, the same jury convicted Villanueva of 2 counts of 1st-degree murder for the May 11, 2016 killing of his ex-girlfriend Rosemary Barrasa, 37, and for the strangling, four months later (Sept. 17, 2016), of his 82-year-old cellmate at the Smith Correctional Facility in Banning, Tom Carlin. Riverside County Superior Court Judge Mac Fisher scheduled a sentencing hearing for Sept. 20 at the Riverside Hall of Justice.