LOS ANGELES (AP) — The 30-year-old widow of a wealthy software designer and two of her cousins were convicted of killing the woman's estranged husband to collect nearly $1 million in insurance.
Bruce Cleland, 43, was shot to death in his car July 26, 1997. Rebecca Cleland told investigators she was knocked unconscious by carjackers and awoke to the sight of her husband in a pool of blood.
But police said paramedics found no evidence she was injured. She was arrested seven months later.
On Thursday, Cleland, Jose Quezada, 33, and Alvaro Quezada, 26, were found guilty of murder, conspiracy, and the special circumstances of murder for financial gain and lying in wait. All three were scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 4.
The Clelands had been married for six months when he was killed.