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Man Will Spend The Rest Of His Life Behind Bars For Ventura, Kern County Killings

A man convicted in Ventura County of the rapes, and murders of two women will spend the rest of his life behind bars.

Wilson Chouest was sentenced this week in Ventura for the cold case murders which occurred in 1980.  His victims still haven't been identified.  The now 66 year old man was already behind bars in 2015 for two other rapes in Central California when detectives linked him to the two killings with DNA evidence.

The body of one of the victims was found in Kern County, and the body of the other was discovered in the parking lot of Westlake High School.  The victim found in Westlake Village was pregnant, but legal technicalities didn't allow him to be charged with death of the fetus.

Chouest was ordered to serve two life sentences for the killings.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.