A 42-year-old man whose fiancée’s physique was discovered dismembered in a bag on the fringe of San Francisco Bay was convicted of homicide Monday.
A jury in Alameda County discovered Joseph C. Roberts responsible of second-degree homicide for killing his girlfriend, Rachel Elizabeth Imani Buckner, 27, and disposing of her physique alongside the shoreline final 12 months.
Roberts faces 15 years to life in jail, and is ready to be sentenced on June 14, in accordance with KTVU Fox 2.
“As we speak means I can breathe just a little bit simpler,” Buckner’s mom, S. Jamila Buckner, mentioned on the courthouse steps, in accordance with the station.
Buckner’s physique was discovered July 20 close to the Bay Farm Island Bridge spanning the San Leandro Channel. Authorities initially had little data to go on as a result of the physique was dismembered, investigators advised Bay Space information station KTVU.
Police recognized Buckner by way of DNA proof on Aug. 30 and every week later arrested Roberts.
The 2 lived collectively in Pleasanton. They’d met at Golden Gate College College of Regulation.
Buckner, who earlier graduated from Howard College, was just some months shy of commencement from regulation college when she was killed.
“To anybody that received to know and be round Imani, she was an attractive and radiant gentle,” her mom mentioned on the time.
