This combination of undated photos from the Megan’s Law website shows suspects, Steven Dean Gordon, 45, left, and Franc Cano, 27, who were arrested on Friday, April 11, 2014, on suspicion of killing four women in Orange County, Calif.By GILLIAN FLACCUS
Associated Press
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Two convicted sex offenders dutifully checked in with police every month and wore their GPS trackers around the clock – the rules of parole that are designed to tip off authorities if a freed felon backslides.
Yet for at least two months last fall, authorities claim, Franc Cano and Steven Dean Gordon were raping and killing at least four women – and probably a fifth – in the seedy prostitution hangouts of Orange County.
It was data from their GPS trackers – along with cellphone records from the victims and other evidence – that helped investigators link them to the killings, police said.