Jurors Recommend
Death for Pomona Man

POMONA – Pomona Superior Court jurors recommended death for a 35-year-old man convicted last week of murder and rape.

Deputy District Attorney Cathryn Brougham of Major Crimes Division said Judge George Genesta ordered James Winslow Dixon, Jr. back for sentencing May 2 for the 2001 slaying of Cal Poly Pomona student Christina Burmeister and for raping two women in 1996.

On March 19, jurors convicted Dixon of first-degree murder with special circumstances of kidnapping and robbery. He also was convicted of two counts of rape with special allegations that the assaults were committed in the course of a burglary, the victims were tied and bound, a weapon was used and multiple rapes were carried out.

Burmeister’s murder went unsolved for four years until a DNA cold hit linked the defendant to the crime. DNA analysis on cigar butt found at the murder scene allowed authorities to arrest and charge Dixon.

The victim, who was on her way to a fraternity party the night of her disappearance, was found with her throat slit.

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