Man sentenced to death in Fairfax murders

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A serial killer already on death row in California has been sentenced to death for the murder of a young couple in Reston more than two decades ago. A Fairfax County judge formally imposed two death sentences on Alfredo R. Prieto, 45, for the December 1988 slayings of Rachael A. Raver and Warren H. Fulton III in a vacant lot.

A jury recommended last month that Prieto be sentenced to death, but Circuit Court Judge Randy I. Bellows could have reduced the sentence to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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