Steven Dean Gordon is one of two Anaheim men facing special-circumstances murder and forcible rape charges. Jarrae Nykkole Estepp, a year-old from Oklahoma whose body was found on a conveyor belt at a recycling center in Anaheim, is one of four women authorities say was killed by Franc Cano and Steven Dean Gordon.
SANTA ANA — A convicted sex offender told police in an interview shown during his trial on Tuesday that he purposely removed trash bags off of the body of the last of four women he is accused of killing in the hopes that officers would find her. Family members of the four women sobbed and consoled one other as jurors watched the videotaped interview between Anaheim Det. Julissa Trapp and Steven Gordon, in which the suspect calmly detailed how he and Franc Cano allegedly picked up, had sex with and strangled to death one Anaheim and three Santa Ana prostitutes.
The roughly two-hour interview began with Gordon describing the defendants picking up Kianna Jackson, 20, in Santa Ana for sex.
Gordon said that the men were angered when Jackson tried to escape his car after getting paid but before having sex with him. The pair drove a sobbing Jackson to an Anaheim industrial park where Gordon worked and lived, the defendant said. Gordon said that Cano ordered him to punch Jackson several times, hoping to knock the air out of her.
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After she was dead, Gordon said, he and Cano cleaned the body and clipped the nails to get rid of any DNA, placed two trash bags over her and dumped her in a trash bin at the industrial park. As they were driving, Vargas seemed to change her mind, Gordon said, at which point he alleged that Cano came out of the cargo area and grabbed Vargas, pulling her into the back seat. Once again, Gordon said, he and Cano brought the woman back to the Anaheim industrial park and had sex with her.
