Photos: O.C. killings
Photo of Jarrae Nykkole Estepp, 21, bottom right, at an Anaheim press conference where authorities discussed the deaths of at least four women, allegedly at the hands of two Anaheim men. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
Police say two registered sex offenders raped and killed at least four women who vanished from some of Orange County’s toughest streets.
Possible murder victims Kianna Jackson, 20, top left, Josephine Vargas, 24, top right, Martha Anaya, 28, bottom left, and Jarrae Nykkole Estepp, 21, bottom right, at a press conference at the Anaheim Police Department. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
Jodi Estepp, the mother of Jarrae Nykkole Estepp, speaks outside the arraignment for Franc Cano and Steven Dean Gordon, charged in connection with the murders and rapes of four women in Anaheim and Santa Ana. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)
A car waits at a stop light at the corner of Ball Road and Beach Boulevard in Anaheim, near a strip of motels in an area known as a haven for prostitution where Jarrae Nykkole Estepp was last believed to have stayed before her death. (Patrick T. Fallon / Los Angeles Times)
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Trees and a pool are reflected in the window for room 217 at the Anaheim Lodge motel where Jarrae Nykkole Estepp was last believed to have stayed before her death. (Patrick T. Fallon / Los Angeles Times)
Martha Anaya, 28, and her boyfriend Jesse Fisher, 25, in a photo from her Facebook page. Anaya, who has a history of drug use and prostitution, went missing Nov. 12. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
Deja Fisher, 5, nuzzles her father, Jesse Fisher’s arm while the two spend time in their Santa Ana home. The girl’s mother, Martha Anaya, 28, went missing Nov. 12 and Fisher, Anaya’s boyfriend, has been taking care of their daughter since her disappearance. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
Jesse Fisher led an effort to find his missing girlfriend, Martha Anaya, 28. The woman, who had a history of drug use and prostitution, since she disappeared Nov. 12. (Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)