Transient gets 30 to life for killing homeless woman in Huntington Beach, decapitating the body

A 37-year-old transient was sentenced on Friday, April 11, to 30 years to life in prison by an Orange County Superior Court judge who said if he could he would have punished the defendant even more for killing a homeless woman and then decapitating her and burying her body in the backyard of his family’s home in Huntington Beach.
Antonio Padilla was convicted Feb. 18 of second-degree murder in the June 30, 2022, killing of 60-year-old Regina “Gina” Marie Lockhart.
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