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A 34-year-old California man who beheaded his ex-girlfriend and mother of his child with a samurai sword near her house in broad daylight faces 26 years in prison. According to the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office, a jury found Jose 'Rafa' Solano Landaeta guilty of first-degree murder in the heinous murder of Karina Castro, 27, on September 8, 2022. Prosecutors said Castro suffered repeated blows to the head with a samurai at Landaeta's San Carlos apartment building, nearly slashing her arm off and decapitating her.

Jose Raphael Solano Landaeta (right), 33, was accused of beheading his ex-girlfriend Karina Castro (left), 27, in broad daylight, is a United States citizen, although previous reports state he was in America unlawfully. As neighbors from the neighborhood watched the gruesome scene unfold, Castro was beheaded with a'samurai sword' outside her Bay Area home on Thursday. Landaeta is being detained on a no bail basis, and the court has released a criminal restraining order directing him not to have any contact with the victim's two children.