Hollywood Murderer Admits To Being LA Serial Killer

HOLLYWOOD, CA — A man who is already serving 110 years to life in state prison for killing a 15-year-old runaway in Hollywood pleaded guilty Tuesday to murdering two women, one of whom was pregnant.

Gilton Pitre, 46, is facing life in prison without the possibility of parole, with sentencing scheduled for Aug. 29 in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office.

The latest case involves the Jan. 31, 2004, killing of Maribel Medina and the Sept. 2, 2004, slaying of Irma Barboza, who was about who was eight months pregnant when she was slain. The third murder charge involves the woman's fetus.

Both of the women were transients whose bodies were dumped in the downtown Los Angeles area, according to the District Attorney's Office.

Along with pleading guilty to three murder charges in the latest case, Pitre admitted the special circumstance allegations of multiple murders and murder with a prior murder conviction.

Pitre was convicted in May 2010 of first-degree murder and unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor involving Alyssa Gomez, whose body was found wrapped in a bedspread from the Olive Motel and dumped in an alley about a mile away. The teen had been strangled.

Footage from a surveillance camera showed him walking with a female into one of the rooms at about 11:15 p.m. on June 3, 2007, and Pitre carrying a large covered object from his room and putting it in the trunk of his car about five hours later, according to a state appellate court panel's September 2011 ruling that upheld his conviction for Gomez's killing.

In sentencing Pitre to the 110-year-to-life term in July 2010, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Kathleen Kennedy said the sentence was designed to ensure that Pitre was never released and "doesn't have the chance to do this to somebody else."

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