If found guilty, Tovar Fernandez faces the death penalty or life in prison without possibility of parole in connection to the death of Elyse Erwin, 28, with whom he shared custody of their young ...

Jorge Fernandez Tovar, 26, accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend Elyse Erwin, has hired a high-powered, private attorney to represent his case. No pleas were entered, and arraignment was continued to ...

A Santa Barbara County sheriff’s detective testified Thursday that a truck believed to belong to Jorge Tovar Fernandez was caught on video leaving the Orcutt neighborhood where his ex-girlfriend’s ...

A smiling Jorge Tovar Fernandez pleaded guilty Thursday in Santa Barbara County Superior Court to “willful, deliberate, premeditated murder” for fatally shooting the mother of his child on Easter ...

The attorney representing Jorge Fernandez Tovar, accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend outside an Orcutt apartment complex on Easter Sunday this year, sought last week to have the protective order ...