Three people have been convicted of murdering Vancouver businessman Bill Dobbs in California in 2007.
Dobbs, 48, who owned the Excelsior Buildings Maintenance, was found stabbed to death on the side of the road in Indio, California.
His body was found by a passing motorist.
He was last seen leaving a nearby casino with a man, later identified as Fernando Antonio Benavidez, one of the convicted killers, at 3:45 a.m. on Nov. 26, 2007.
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The prosecution led evidence that Dobbs was lured to an apartment and then a number of people tortured him to try to get his PIN code for his automatic bank machine card.
Dobbs was apparently killed when the robbers became angry when they learned that Dobbs gave them a false PIN code.
Dobbs, who lived in Tsawwassen, had a home in Indio and was staying there with his common-law wife, Toni Dawson.
The couple were planning to return home for Christmas days after Dobbs was killed.
The three killers — Jackie Lynn Dunson, 35, Fernando Antonio Benavidez, 30, and Ronald Wesley Handwerk, 34 — will be sentenced June 22 in Riverside Superior Court in California.
Dunson’s brother, Robert Lee Dunson, 30, and another man, Rogelio Zuniga, are co-accused but won’t but go to trial until June.
Dobbs was an avid golfer and a longtime member of the Beach Grove Golf Club. He had two grown children and a grandson.
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