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 murder 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 yr.
Roberts faces 15 years to life in jail, and is about to be sentenced on June 14, according to KTVU Fox 2.
“Immediately means I can breathe just a little bit simpler,” Buckner’s mom, S. Jamila Buckner, mentioned on the courthouse steps, in response to 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 info to go on as a result of the physique was dismembered, investigators informed Bay Space information station KTVU.
Police recognized Buckner via DNA proof on Aug. 30 and per week later arrested Roberts.
The 2 lived collectively in Pleasanton. They’d met at Golden Gate College College of Legislation.
Buckner, who earlier graduated from Howard College, was just some months shy of commencement from legislation faculty when she was killed.
“To anybody that obtained to know and be round Imani, she was a wonderful and radiant gentle,” her mom mentioned on the time.
