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PLEASANT VALLEY (CBS13) – A hubby was sentenced to beingness successful situation with the anticipation of parole for the brutal 2019 execution of his wife.
In June, Anthony Gumina, 44, admitted to utilizing his bare hands and a enactment to strangle Heather Gumina Waters astatine their home. Her assemblage was recovered buried months aboriginal connected a adjacent spot successful Pleasant Valley.
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Friday, determination was not 1 adust oculus wrong the courtroom arsenic that condemnation was handed down. Heather’s parent Joanna Russel elaborate the rhythm of home maltreatment that led to her daughter’s death.
“He fooled a batch of radical and unluckily helium fooled my daughter,” she said.
She calls it a web of lies and alibis.
“I conjecture I would telephone him a soul-less quality being the mode helium took my daughter’s life,” she said.
Inside the Placerville courtroom, Gumina, successful handcuffs and an orangish facemask, had his eyes laser-focused successful beforehand of him.
He ne'er turned astir to look Heather’s household arsenic they work their unfortunate interaction statements.
Gumina did look up to ticker a slideshow presumption of Heather’s beingness featuring photos of her and her children.
“She mattered to america and we mislaid everything,” Russell said.
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In 2019, deputies recovered Heather’s assemblage successful Pleasant Valley aft she was reported missing weeks earlier.
Gumina was arrested and charged with her murder. The territory lawyer says a home unit complaint was filed against him—Heather was the victim.
She was acceptable to attest successful that lawsuit the period she disappeared.
“She was stuck successful a rhythm of maltreatment and she didn’t marque it out,” Russell said.
Even though Gumina admitted successful tribunal to the brutal killing, extracurricular the courtroom, his longtime friends telephone this a “crime of passion.”
“Tony isn’t a monster, he’s not a monster astatine all,” said 1 friend, Pam.
But household and the territory lawyer overgarment a antithetic picture, 1 of a premeditated transgression and a past of home violence.
“My household has been done truthful overmuch pain,” said Russell. “She ever saw the bully successful everyone and unluckily she adjacent saw the bully successful tony
Family says they’re hopeful that erstwhile Gumina comes up for parole helium won’t beryllium eligible.
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A 2nd fishy was arrested in transportation to Heather’s disappearance and murder. Justin Kremer, 40, is suspected of being an accessory to Heather’s murder. His transportation to Heather and Anthony Gumina isn’t wide astatine this point.
Marissa Perlman
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