Friday, July 15, 2011

A homeless black man has pleaded guilty to the 2006 rape and murder of an 85-year-old woman in a Moreno Valley retirement home

Frank Gabriel Galvan, 26, has been sentenced to two life sentences and will not be eligible for parole in the death of Evelyn Ryan. Galvan admitted to breaking into her ground-level apartment at the Eucalyptus Towers on Jan. 29, 2006, while searching for drug money, authorities said. Ryan was found dead the next morning. She had been raped and sodomized and died as a result of homicidal violence and cardiac arrest, officials said. Her daughter found her body when she arrived to take her to church. Ryan was two weeks away from a trip to Iowa to see her great-grandchildren for the first time. Galvan remained a fugitive for nearly two years after the killing. Moreno Valley city officials offered a reward and circulated a composite sketch of a male suspect. Galvan was tied to the case through fingerprints after he was arrested on drug charges. Galvan confessed to the killing the day he was arrested and agreed to a plea to avoid the death penalty. Galvan pleaded guilty to all of the charges, including murder, rape, sodomy and burglary. He was sentenced to one term of 30 years to life for burglary and rape and another of life without parole for the murder.

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