A California man has been found guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend. Police say her final moments were recorded on a chilling voicemail. The true crime tragedy began on Sept. 2, 2020, when 25-year-old Laura Sardinha changed her locks at her apartment because she was in fear of her ex-boyfriend — 39-year-old Craig J. Charron. Sardinha also had a restraining order placed against him, which several other women reportedly had done as well. 'Cold-hearted murder.'That same day, Sardinha was on a three-way phone call with her mother and her best friend around 1:15 p.m.However, the call was interrupted for a horrific reason. Despite all of her precautions, Charron allegedly broke into Sardinha's apartment unit. She allegedly screamed, "Oh my God, he’s here!"Sardinha's friend hung up the phone call and contacted 911. Soon, Sardinha reportedly called her friend back and left a chilling 37-second voicemail message that would record her final tragic moments.According to the Los Angeles Times, Sardinha was heard screaming, "He’s gonna kill me!"The woman also allegedly yelled, "Get away from me!"Police arrived at the crime scene to find Sardinha dead and Charron bleeding from wounds to his chest and neck. 'He was the aggressor 100% of the time.'Charron’s attorney, Michael Guisti, argued during the trial that his client acted in self-defense. However, prosecutors asserted that Charron inflicted the stab wounds on himself with a serrated steak knife to make it appear as a self-defense case."It doesn’t matter if he self-inflicted wounds, or if she defended herself," Orange County Deputy District Attorney Janine Madera stated. "He was the aggressor 100% of the time."At about 6-feet tall and weighing 220 pounds, Charron stood about nine inches taller and weighed over 100 pounds more than Sardinha, prosecutors noted.“She can’t cut lemons and limes reliably with a knife, let alone defend her life,” Madera claimed. “He towered over her.”Madera described Sardinha’s death as "cold-hearted murder" and said of the voicemail recording, "You don’t hear the defendant on it, and his silence is absolutely deafening. He’s enjoying taking his time killing her."Madera noted in her closing statements at Charron’s Tuesday trial in Santa Ana that “if you listen to it carefully, you hear a woman narrating her own murder."Charron claimed during the trial that he could not recall much of the encounter with Sardinha but described it as "hazy."However, Charron insisted that Sardinha had threatened him with a knife and that he stabbed his ex-girlfriend only in self-defense.During the trial, Charron reportedly described himself as a former combat medic with a 100% disability rating who had received psychiatric treatment at a United States Department of Veterans Affairs hospital. "I didn’t quite comprehend what was happening in the moment," Charron claimed. "It’s taking me a second to understand I’m being cut up."During the trial, three of Charron’s ex-girlfriends testified that they had taken out restraining orders against him."One woman said he choked her and hit her in the head with a wine bottle," according to the Times. "Another said he slapped her and poured vodka on her head. A third said he pinned her to a wall and punched a man who was in her company."After less than one day of deliberations, a jury found Charron guilty of first-degree murder. He faces a maximum punishment of life in prison.Charron is scheduled to be sentenced on July 25.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up!

Mass immigration has had a profound impact on many industries in America, and one of them is the trucking industry — which the Trump administration is tackling with an executive order. According to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, the executive order “will be an order directing the Department of Transportation to include English literacy tests for our truckers.” “This is a big problem in the trucking community, that unless you’re in that community, you might not know. But there’s a lot of communication problems between truckers on the road with federal officials and local officials as well, which obviously is a public safety risk,” Leavitt explained in a recent press conference. “So we’re going to ensure that our truckers, who are the backbone of our economy, are all able to speak English,” she continued. Gord Magill, trucker and author of “End of the Road,” has warned that it’s not just benign communication issues occurring — but that they can and have turned deadly. “We have all these extra drivers on the roads who do not speak English, and that’s sort of a problem given that the language of the road is English. All your highway signs are in English, all your weather reports are in English, all of your enforcement officers are in English,” Magill tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “What happened is that the accident statistics for trucks started to increase, so you started seeing more collisions and more people involved in fatal collisions,” Magill continues, noting that it all began after Biden’s “trucking action plan.” “There was a COVID demand spike, which is why Biden did this trucking action plan, and then that dissipated, and we’ve been in what’s called a freight recession basically for the last three years, and American legacy trucking companies, mom and pops, medium-sized carriers, have been going out of business left, right, and center,” he explains. “But this number of insource drivers remains the same, and more and more of them are getting in accidents. Like the statistics show an increase year-over-year since 2016 since this loophole was opened and has been going higher since 2021,” he adds. Want more from 'Blaze News Tonight'?To enjoy more provocative opinions, expert analysis, and breaking stories you won’t see anywhere else, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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