An Anaheim 20-year-old who as a teen was charged with murdering a father and son in an early-morning 2010 high-speed, drunken-driving crash, was convicted by a jury today.

Rafael Lopez was found guilty of two felony counts of murder and faces up to 30 years to life in state prison at his June 7 sentencing in Santa Ana.

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A 23-year-old Santa Ana man was convicted today of murdering a male lover who was more than twice his age by beating him with a ceramic rock.

Jose Fuentes now faces a maximum sentence of life in state prison without parole at a scheduled Friday hearing.

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When gang banger Joseph Baez's special circumstances murder trial began last month, he was looking at the possibility of life in state prison without the possibility of parole if convicted in Orange County's first murder of 2010. Thursday, a jury found him guilty instead of second degree murder and sentencing enhancements that carry a maximum punishment that's technically less severe than life without parole, but not much less for the inmate suffered a beat down as part of ongoing tensions between rival Mexican gangs in Orange County Jail.

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A Santa Ana jury took 90 minutes today to convict Agustin Armaraz Espinoza of murdering his wife after she asked him to move out because he was unemployed, had gambled away $100,000 of his pension money and had a mistress on the side.

In other words, the man every girl wanted behind the door while playing Mystery Date.

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A murder trial begins in Santa Ana this morning for the alleged partner in crime of a previously convicted fellow Orange resident who, while navigating the court process from Orange County Jail, was charged with carrying out Mexican Mafia orders. Joseph Baez, 28, faces a special circumstances murder charge and other counts that could send him to state prison for life without the possibility of parole.

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A Santa Ana man with a history of crime and a restraining taken out by his mother for the violence directed at her received the maximum sentence today for the second degree murder of her house guest, who was stabbed in the chest with a pocket knife.

Saul Jose Salazar, 29, was sentenced to 16 years to life in state prison.

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A jury in Santa Ana today convicted a homeless man of killing another homeless man by beating him in the head with a piece of wood.

Sergio Camacho Gonzalez, 39, faces up to 26 years to life in state prison at his sentencing hearing, scheduled for April 5. He was found guilty of murder, with a personal use of a deadly weapon sentencing enhancement.

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Richard Gustav Forsberg got into an argument with his wife of nearly 40 years, beat her head with a small statue until she was dead, decapitated and dismembered her, stowed her remains in two freezers, trucked the freezers to a Ventura County campsite, burned the body parts and all the while lied to neighbors, friends, family and cops about her whereabouts.

For that, the 64-year-old was sentenced today to 15 years to life in state prison, which doesn't seem nearly long enough.

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Please see the writer's note and correction on the next page.

Today's arraignment of Cheyene Fuimaono for allegedly murdering his girlfriend's toddler son reminded me that I wanted to slap together a list of 10 Orange Countians who proved to be really bad boyfriends in 2012.

Match.comming eHarmonizers take note of the results after the jump . . .

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Richard Gustavo Forsberg, the Rancho Santa Margarita man whose ever-changing stories about the whereabouts of his wife of nearly 40 years led to a homicide investigation, was convicted this morning in Orange County Superior Court. The jury found the 63-year-old guilty of second-degree murder in the 2010 case where authorities believe Marcia Ann Forsberg, 60, had her head smashed in with a statuette before her body was burned near a Ventura County campground.

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