Man burning body of woman from dating app started wildfire
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Inset images: Victor Serriteno and Priscilla Castro, courtesy of the Vacaville Police Department. Background image: A wildfire blazing close to Lake Berryessa in Solano County, California, in August 2020 (source: KTVU/YouTube).

A man from California has been found guilty of three murders and arson after meeting a woman through a dating app, killing her, and igniting a fire to dispose of her body — a blaze that subsequently killed two additional people.

33-year-old Victor Serriteno entered a no contest plea on Friday as part of an agreement for a 73-year-to-life prison term, as reported by The Vacaville Reporter, referencing an announcement from the Solano County District Attorney’s Office.

The Vacaville man committed the murders in August 2020, with prosecutors saying he killed Priscilla Castro, 32, of Vallejo, on or around Aug. 16, 2020, and then 82-year old Douglas Mai and 64-year old Leon Bone in the ensuing fire.

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Serriteno tried burning Castro’s body on Aug. 18, 2020, according to a Vacaville Police Department press release. Cal Fire responded to a blaze at the trailhead of the Putah Creek Wildlife Area near Highway 128 in Solano County, located between San Francisco and Sacramento, that same day. The fire destroyed hundreds of structures — many of them homes — and tore through thousands of acres in northern Solano County, per the Reporter.

“After killing Priscilla Castro, defendant Serriteno drove her up to the Putah Creek Wildlife Area off Highway 128 where he dumped her body,” District Attorney Krishna Abrams said in her office’s press release. “Additional circumstantial evidence placed Serriteno in the area of Priscilla’s body at the time the Markley Fire was started.”

According to Abrams, Serriteno wound up causing “one of the most catastrophic fires in the history of Solano County.” Castro’s remains were “badly burned and unrecognizable,” but an angel pendant that she wore was located in the debris and helped link Serriteno to what happened, SFGate reports, citing Vacaville Police.

Mai and Bone died in Vacaville after the Markley Fire merged into another blaze, the Hennessey Fire, which ripped through parts of the LNU Lightning Complex and north Solano County where they lived, according to officials.

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