Sedgwick County District Judge Joseph Bribiesca on Tuesday
ordered Perez, 55, to serve two life sentences, plus more than 33 years, on 28
convictions connected to a decade-long string of crimes.
Kansas commune(cult) leader Daniel Perez, 55, was convicted of
the first-degree murder of 26-year-old Patricia Hughes, who was found floating
in a pool nearly 12 years ago, KAKE reports.
Prosecutors claimed that Perez killed the young mom to collect
$2 million in life insurance money.
He was also convicted of 27 other charges, including rape,
sodomy and sexual exploitation of a child.
"We're pleased that we got the verdict, but you heard about
life after life after life that was adversely affected by this man, from Texas
to the Dakotas to Lee Summit, Missouri, and back to Wichita," Sedgwick County
District Attorney Marc Bennett said.
Authorities have said Hughes wasn't the only member of Perez's
so-called family to die under suspicious circumstances. Others include Hughes's
husband, who was crushed to death by a car, and a woman who was killed in a
plane crash.
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