Illegal immigrant gets life in prison for murdering Bethesda woman

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A 34-year-old illegal immigrant convicted of murdering a 63-year-old Bethesda woman and hogtying and robbing three other widows will go to prison for life without parole, a Montgomery County Circuit Court judge decided.

Before delivering the sentence Thursday, Judge Michael D. Mason emphasized Jose Garcia-Perlera’s deliberate selection of his victims, his apparent “pleasure and satisfaction in inflicting pain” and “callous disregard for life” as he left four elderly women for dead during his yearlong string of assaults and robberies.

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