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Senate leader calls for GPS investigation after O.C. serial killings
By latimes.com- Paloma Esquivel and Paige St. John
Published: 04/18/2014

SACRAMENTO -- The leader of the state Senate is seeking an investigation into how two sex offenders being monitored by parole agents and tracked by GPS devices were allegedly able to rape and murder four women without being detected.

The two sex offenders were wearing electronic monitoring devices and regularly reporting to police during a months-long string of slayings in Orange County. They were arrested soon after a woman’s naked body was found on a conveyor belt at a trash-sorting facility.

Senate leader Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) said through his spokesman that while there’s evidence the devices are effective in solving crimes, the question of whether they prevent crime is something “we need to revisit.”

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