Parolee pleads guilty to slaying of Los Angeles teen, avoids death penalty
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California parolee has pleaded guilty to murder in the slaying of a 17-year-old girl who was kidnapped, forced to withdraw money from a bank then beaten to death.
Fifty-year-old Charlie Samuel's plea Friday means he avoids a possible death penalty for the July 24 killing of Lily Burk.
Samuel pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, kidnapping to commit robbery and other charges. He was arrested for an unrelated drug crime before Burk's body was discovered in her black Volvo.
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Police say Samuel abducted Burk after she went to Southwestern University School of Law to run an errand for her mother, who is a professor there.
Samuel had been on parole after serving time for petty theft.
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