VACAVILLE – An aged man awaiting execution for the rape and homicide of a girl on the Lafayette Reservoir within the late Seventies died of pure causes over the weekend, based on authorities.
Kemp was tried, convicted and sentenced to dying in 2009 for the Nov. 14, 1978, homicide of Armida Wiltsey.
It was the second dying sentence for Kemp, who was convicted of two rapes and of raping and murdering a Los Angeles nurse within the Nineteen Fifties. In 1972, his first dying sentence was commuted to life in jail when the California Supreme Courtroom dominated the dying penalty unconstitutional.
Kemp was paroled on July 23, 1978, and murdered Wiltsey roughly 4 months later.
Wiltsey was present in brush close to a jogging path. She had been strangled and had proof of binding on her wrists.
The homicide went unsolved for many years. However a break within the case lastly got here in 2002 when the Contra Costa County forensic lab matched DNA in Kemp’s hair with the genetic make-up of a speck of blood discovered on certainly one of Wiltsey’s fingernails.
