15 Facts About Alfredo Prieto

Alfredo Rolando Prieto was a Salvadoran-American serial killer.

Alfredo Prieto was born on November 18,1965, in San Martin, San Salvador, El Salvador to parents Arnoldo and Teodora Prieto, who had five other children.

Alfredo Prieto spent his childhood and adolescence in poverty since his parents experienced heavy financial difficulties during the Football War.

Alfredo Prieto's mother left El Salvador in 1975 due to her husband's abuse and emigrated to the United States.

Alfredo Prieto received a minor sentence and was released in 1987, after which he left California and moved to Virginia.

Alfredo Prieto settled in Arlington County, Virginia, where his father had emigrated after serving a murder conviction in El Salvador.

Once in Arlington, Alfredo Prieto found a job and met another girl, who later bore him a son.

In February 1990, Alfredo Prieto left the state and moved back to California.

Alfredo Prieto was replaced by another friend of Prieto's, Ricardo Estrada, whom they came across while buying gasoline at a gas station.

In 2005, a law was passed obligating all convicts in the state to submit their DNA, resulting in Alfredo Prieto's DNA being entered into the national database.

On May 5,1990, Alfredo Prieto was shown to have killed 19-year-old Stacey Siegrist and her 21-year-old fiance, Anthony Gianuzzi, in Rubidoux, California.

On June 2,1990, Alfredo Prieto killed Lula Mae Farley in an alley behind an Ontario supermarket where she and her husband were collecting recyclables, according to 1990 news coverage.

The first trial for the Raver-Fulton murders began in 2007, with Alfredo Prieto initially being found guilty by a jury.

Alfredo Prieto's lawyers filed an appeal, and the Virginia Supreme Court overturned the sentence based on an error in the jury verdict form.

Alfredo Prieto was sentenced to death for a third and final time in 2010.