The so-called "Pillowcase Rapist" who attacked at least 40 women in the 1970s and 1980s will be freed from prison and allowed to live in a remote Southern California desert area despite a host of vocal protests, a judge ordered Friday.
Christopher Evans Hubbart, 63, must be released by July 7, Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Gilbert Brown ruled.
Hubbart will be permitted to rent a small house near Palmdale, some 45 miles northeast of downtown Los Angeles.
A former Oklahoma doctor pleaded guilty to second-degree murder charges on Wednesday in connection to the drug overdose deaths of several patients.
William Valuck, a former pain management doctor, pleaded guilty to eight counts of second-degree murder under a plea deal with Oklahoma County prosecutors, who agreed to drop several drug charges. The deal calls for Valuck to spend eight years in prison.
Investigators have said Valuck prescribed more controlled narcotic drugs than any other physician in the state, sometimes as many as 600 pills at a time.
A man who is on death row for killing 10 women in the Los Angeles area was convicted Thursday of four more murders.
Chester Turner, 47, was convicted of strangling the women in South Los Angeles between 1987 and 1997. Prosecutors said DNA evidence linked him to the killings.
Jurors deliberated less than a day before finding the former pizza deliveryman guilty of first-degree murder with special allegations that make him eligible for the death penalty, according to a statement from the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.
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