A man whose conviction and death sentence were overturned for the kidnapping, rape, robbery and murder of a woman who had been shopping at a Pasadena mall nearly 36 years ago was found guilty again Monday of the crime.
The downtown Los Angeles jury found Ronald Anthony Jones guilty of first-degree murder for the Oct. 18, 1988, slaying of Lois Haro, 26, who was found by Pasadena police in an isolated area near the 134 Freeway with a gunshot wound to her head.
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Jurors also found true four special circumstance allegations — murder during the commission of a rape, forcible oral copulation, kidnapping and robbery — along with an allegation that someone involved in the crime personally used a handgun, but the jury’s foreperson told Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Eleanor J. Hunter that the panel had deadlocked 6-6 on whether Jones had personally used a handgun during the crime.
Jones, now 54, is facing life in prison without the possibility of parole, with sentencing set Oct. 22…