Cimarron Bell

Cimarron Bernard Bell (born ) is an American serial killer who was convicted for the murders of his girlfriend and three men in California, committed during separate incidents in 2003 and 2004. Sentenced to death for the killings, he remains on death row awaiting execution.

Murders Around 2003, Bell, then working as a janitor at the Morgan Metals industrial park in La Habra, was involved in a check-cashing scheme involving several individuals, one of whom was his girlfriend, 22-year-old Ineka Edmondson. Edmondson's body was found on the following day, but at the time, no conclusive evidence linked her boyfriend to the crime.

Arrest, trial, and imprisonment After the police were contacted, they started retracing the final steps of the victims, learning that on the day of their deaths, Larios and Valles, both of whom worked at the National Fence in Santa Fe Springs, were last seen leaving their workplace in the morning. Despite this, it was not until the arrest of another girlfriend of Bell during a credit card fraud scheme that led to their capture, as the woman informed police that he had told her that he had killed four people and had even taken her to see where he had shot Edmondson. Bell was held on $1 million bail, while Lee was held without bail on murder charges. Bell and Lee each pleaded not guilty to the triple murder charges.

After a several months-long trial, the jury found Bell guilty of all four murders, at which point his defense attorney filed a motion for a new trial. This request was rejected, and on April 19, 2011, Bell was officially sentenced to death for the murders, with the verdict welcomed by the victims' family members. Since his incarceration, he has repeatedly attempted to appeal his sentence, but so far, his attempts have been unsuccessful, and he remains on death row.

Lee was only convicted of one count of second-degree murder, being acquitted of the other charges. The lesser conviction spared him from execution, and he was sentenced to 40 years to life in prison. Over the following years, Lee's attorneys attempted to have his convictions overturned, arguing that there were procedural errors in their client's trial. These claims were rejected by the District Court of Appeal, which upheld his convictions in 2014.