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Josephine Vargas, 34, was murdered on October 24, 2013, in a series of linked killings in Orange County, California.

Cano, then 36, and Gordon, then 53, are identified as the perpetrators. Cano pleaded guilty and received life without the possibility of parole after prosecutors dropped a bid for the death penalty; Gordon represented himself, was convicted in 2016, and was sentenced to death in 2017. Investigators reportedly used DNA and GPS data from monitoring devices the men had been wearing to link them to multiple victims. The bodies of Josephine Vargas, Kianna Jackson, and Martha Anaya have not been recovered.

The case raised criticism of probation supervision because Cano and Gordon were able to socialize in violation of their release terms and had at one point cut off GPS devices and fled California. Does anyone have information about Vargas’s last known movements or contacts in Orange County that could help fill gaps in the timeline?