Pomona Man Sentenced to Death

May 2, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Joe Scott, Director of Communications
Sandi Gibbons, Public Information Officer
Jane Robison, News Secretary
(213) 974-3525

POMONA – A 35-year-old man was formally sentenced to death today for the 2001 slaying of a Cal Poly Pomona student, the District Attorney’s Office announced.
James Winslow Dixon, Jr. was convicted in March of first-degree murder with special circumstances of kidnapping and robbery in connection with the killing of college student Christina Burmeister. He also was convicted of raping two women in 1996.

Pomona Superior Court Judge George Genesta upheld the recommendation made by jurors on March 27.

Burmeister’s murder went unsolved for four years until a DNA cold hit linked the defendant to the crime. The victim was on her way to a party the night she disappeared. Her body was discovered the next day.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant Head Deputy John Monaghan, Jr. and Deputy District Attorney Cathryn Brougham of Major Crimes Division.

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