Willits Cannabis Grower Who Decapitated Victims Sentenced to Life Without Parole This Week
Below is the Facebook post on the sentencing from the Mendocino County District Attorney’s Office:
Defendant Christopher Wayne Gamble, age 48, of Willits, returned to the Mendocino County Superior Court Thursday afternoon to hear the sentence he will be serving as punishment for murdering two men by means of death by firearm.
The defendant was convicted by jury in early May of the murders of both Ulises Andrade Ayala and Anwar Ayala Rodriguez at a marijuana site the defendant was operating on Sherwood Road.
Even if he were so inclined, the law afforded the sentencing judge, Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Keith Faulder, very little discretion as to the ultimate outcome and final sentence that could be ordered.
For the murder in the second degree of Mr. Andrade Ayala, defendant Gamble was sentenced to 15 years to life in state prison, the only sentencing option allowed by law for this crime.
Because the defendant personally and intentionally discharged a firearm to cause Mr. Andrade Ayala’s death, an additional 25 years to life was imposed, to run consecutive to the 15 years to life for the murder.
For the murder in the first degree of Mr. Ayala Rodriguez, the law required an LWOP sentence, meaning life in state prison without the possibility of parole.The jury had found true a special circumstance in May alleging that defendant Gamble committed at least two murders, with at least one of the two being murder of the first degree. This finding requires an LWOP sentence.
Again, because the defendant personally and intentionally discharged a firearm to cause Mr. Ayala Rodriguez’s death, an additional 25 years to life was added to the defendant’s overall sentencing ledger.
Finally, the defendant was sentenced to the low term of 16 months — consecutive to the murder sentences — for his conviction for felony animal abuse involving hurting and killing roosters.
In total, defendant Gamble was sentenced to LWOP plus just a few months over 66 years in the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
The law enforcement agencies that developed the evidence supporting the jury verdicts and findings entered in May were the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office, the Mendocino Major Crimes Task Force, the Department of Justice crime laboratory, and the District Attorney’s own Bureau of Investigation.
Special thanks are again extended to the Department of Anthropology at Chico State for their forensic assistance in the investigation, as well as to the Ukiah Valley Fire Authority for their fire investigation assistance.
The prosecutor who prepared the People’s case against defendant Gamble and represented the District Attorney at today’s sentencing hearing was Senior Deputy District Attorney Scott McMenomey.
Earlier:
- Missing Persons Investigation: Suspicious Circumstances
- Two Missing Men Located Deceased; One Arrested
- Criminal Complaint Reveals Willits Man is Suspected of First-Degree Murder in the Shooting Death of Two Men and Also of Torturing Chickens
- Willits Man, Suspected of Double-Homicide and Animal Abuse, Pleads Not Guilty
- Willits Man Convicted of Murdering Two Men and Decapitating Them
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We actually voted to reinstate the death penalty in CA. Governor French Laundry Newsom overrode our popular vote to abolish the death penalty. I feel a need to continuously point out this miscarriage of justice and denial of the will of the people of California by Greasy Gavin. However people might feel about silver spoon-fed elitist Gavin and his specialness they should really question how he runs over the vote of the people…We will be housing and feeding this murderous pos for decades now while we don’t have enough resources for innocent non-murderers. How is that for values?!
Actually, it costs up to 10 times more to execute versus LWOP. So there’s that
True!
Only because the people of Misplaced Compassion chose to use the strategy of many hearings and red tape blockade to make it so expensive. Then they say what you said. Maybe restrict the death penalty to the very obvious cases? Maybe hold prosecutors who withhold exonerating evidence responsible? The people of Misplaced Compassion will not work to make the death penalty more effective- they are opposed to it entirely and so they choose to block it in any way they can and this is why it is “so expensive”. We voted to reinstate the death penalty yet still they block. That’s not a democracy, my friend- that’s a corruption of the democratic process
that is a foolish thing to say. How bout you back that up with an itemized cost list?
gun $ 350.
Bullet $.75
Chris Rock says by charging $1,000. a bullet, we might cut down on gun deaths! After all, guns don’t kill people, it’s that little piece of lead that does all the damage!
How long was Manson in prison?
Gotta wonder whether he did it for the “free room and board” or if he was smokin’ his own crops…
Look it up at the CDC unless you’re a science-denier… And maybe you’re too young to remember the South Fork killer from the mid-70s who thought he was either Tarzan or Conan the Barbarian
Saved you a google search:
https://www.cdc.gov/injury/features/marijuana-health-effects/index.html
It may not affect EVERYONE that way; but it does affect some…
Ah, yes, public information bulletins published on Facebook/Meta.
Nice of local, state, and federal government to shove Zukerberg’s privacy-theft-corp. down our throats.
Just a sampling..
https://www.businessinsider.com/biggest-facebook-scandals-list-mark-zuckerberg-leaked-harvard-messages-2019-7?op=1
I wanted so to read it, but I left Facebook before Trump’s inauguration forever when it was first revealed Zuckerberg allowed Russian Trolls unfettered access to the weakest minds in these United States of America for quite a spell leading up to the election. Why should a greedy traitor to our country earn money by gathering my information? I do not miss it.
I had almost forgotten about this dude. Shooting and then beheading. What the f*** man?
yes then he decided to compost the bodies. wtf?
He didn’t compost the bodies. He burnt them under tires.
How did he behead them? I seem to remember he used a sawz-all tool. Is this correct? It seems like he`d have dismembered them further if he were in a sawing mood. Then disposal would have been a lot easier; he could have hauled them off in the trunk of a car; dumped them down the bank on some remote road.
And they would have composted much quicker and better! I wonder which blade he used? Anyways- he should be a spokesman for Sawz-All, make some commissary money. I had no idea this tool could do so much! Great for many odd jobs around the property! Sawz-All!!
Pure evil.
Christopher Wayne Gamble deserves the death penalty…
But did he have a permit???
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂👍👍👍
I guess he did since they’re calling him a “cannabis” grower? The rest of us are still just regular old weed growers…
At least they caught him. Sick. Why hurt the roosters?