Yokuts Valley serial killer sentenced to life for three 'nightmare' murders

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A convicted slayer learned his condemnation connected Friday portion coming face-to-face with 1 of his victims' daughters.

"You genuinely are an evil man," Jessica Brumley, the girl of Donnie Lee, said.

Buford King pleaded blameworthy to 3 Yokuts Valley murders betwixt 2011 and 2016. Investigators accidental helium killed Donnie Lee, Aleksey Shelset, and Alberto Contreras.

King utilized 1 of the bodies for people signifier and buried the victims successful holes successful what prosecutors described arsenic a "nightmare."

"I person ne'er heard of thing similar this," Fresno County Superior Court Judge Alvin Harrell III said.

Judge Harrell sentenced King to 50 years to beingness successful prison, positive beingness without the anticipation of parole.

"That symptom and trauma volition ne'er afloat spell away," Brumley said.

King's defence attorneys pointed to what they called "huge PTSD" from serving 2 tours successful Iraq.

"I deliberation helium is genuinely remorseful, and I deliberation helium had (long enough) to deliberation astir what helium has done," lawyer Curtis Sok said.

Sok past issued a written connection claiming, without evidence, that 2 of King's victims were actively abusing young boys erstwhile helium changeable them. Sok and co-counsel Michael McKneely assertion King is simply a "vigilante" who "intervened" and present accepts his sentence.

"Those allegations were ne'er adjudicated successful tribunal and successful respective instances could not beryllium independently verified by investigators," the Fresno County District Attorney's Office wrote successful a statement.

"I bash anticipation that knowing that this idiosyncratic volition not ever beryllium among our assemblage again volition springiness them immoderate signifier of closure," authoritative Liz Owen said successful court.

King gave up his close to entreaty arsenic portion of his plea statement with prosecutors.

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