The Region - News from Aug. 12, 1986

A parolee who killed two teen-age runaways and his half-sister soon after he was released from prison was sentenced to death. Mauricio Silva, 26, had served more than five years for manslaughter in the killing of a 16-year-old boy and for assault on another inmate when he was released in 1984. He subsequently confessed to the shotgun murders of Walter P. Sanders, 17, a runaway from Lompoc, and Monique M. Hilton, 17, a runaway from Illinois. He also confessed strangling, stabbing and slitting the throat of Martha Kitzler, also 17, his half-sister, in their Hollywood home. There was evidence she was also raped.