{"id":7390,"date":"2026-06-16T19:33:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/guilty-cold-case-defendant-takes-das-plea-deal-in-1991-placer-county-murder\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T19:33:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T19:33:02","slug":"guilty-cold-case-defendant-takes-das-plea-deal-in-1991-placer-county-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/guilty-cold-case-defendant-takes-das-plea-deal-in-1991-placer-county-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Guilty\u2019: Cold case defendant takes DA\u2019s plea deal in 1991 Placer County murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<article><!-- --><!-- --><!-- WPS-5038 -- removed the script from WPS and added the placeholder for trinity player --><!-- --><!--[--><!-- AiSummaryComponent.html --><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><svg><title>Key Takeaways<\/title><defs><lineargradient><\/lineargradient><\/defs><\/svg><\/p>\n<div>Key Takeaways<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read our AI Policy.<\/p>\n<ul><!--[--><!--[--><\/p>\n<li>James Lawhead pleaded guilty to first\u2011degree murder in the 1991 death of Cinthia Wanner.<\/li>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<li>A forensic lab identified Lawhead as the cold case suspect using DNA evidence.<\/li>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<li>Lawhead will be sentenced to life in prison without parole next month.<\/li>\n<p><!--]--><!--]--><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--]--><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- CONTENT --><!--[--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>A man arrested two months ago as a suspect in a Placer County cold case unexpectedly pleaded guilty Tuesday to first-degree murder in the 1991 death of a Rancho Cordova mother who was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and strangled.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/sacramento-coffee-crawl-gives-discounts-to-more-than-10-coffee-shops\/\">Sacramento coffee crawl gives discounts to more than 10 coffee shops<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>James Lawhead, 64, pleaded guilty to the murder of 35-year-old Cinthia \u201cCindi\u201d Wanner. She was kidnapped from her sister\u2019s Granite Bay home before her body was found more than two weeks later among trees in a remote area near Foresthill.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Wanner\u2019s murder investigation went unsolved for 35 years, with no arrests or suspects identified. Earlier this year, analysts at a forensic lab in Contra Costa County identified Lawhead as the suspect in Wanner\u2019s murder using DNA evidence found on the woman\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Terry Lynn Lawhead-Steele, 71, of Southern California, Lawhead\u2019s sister, was arrested in April in connection with the cold case. She also appeared in court Tuesday. She pleaded no contest to a felony charge of being an accessory. Prosecutors said she helped her brother, who was a convicted sex offender, hide from authorities even after he was wanted as the suspect in Wanner\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Lawhead-Steele, who was being held in jail on $1 million bail, agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors that will result in two years of probation. She was expected to be released from the Placer County Jail on Tuesday. Lawhead-Steele, who has been in custody since April 25, will be sentenced to time already served in jail.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>She and her brother are scheduled to return to court July 14, when they will be formally sentenced.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Lawhead\u2019s arraignment had been postponed twice before, so he was scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday morning in Placer Superior Court.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<h2>Life in prison without parole<\/h2>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Placer County Deputy District Attorney David Tellman informed the judge that Lawhead agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to the murder charge along with admitting to special circumstance allegations that he killed Wanner during the commission of rape and kidnapping. Prosecutors agreed to drop a felony kidnapping charge as part of the plea deal.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Placer County District Attorney Morgan Gire told The Sacramento Bee that special circumstance allegations against Lawhead make the case against him eligible for the death penalty. Gire had not yet made a decision on whether his office would seek the death penalty against Lawhead.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, Tellman said Lawhead is avoiding that process since the plea agreement will result in a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Lawhead also agreed to waive his right to appeal the conviction.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Lawhead, standing behind protective glass in the courtroom, only spoke briefly in Tuesday\u2019s hearing. He pleaded \u201cguilty\u201d to the murder charge and waived his right to compel the prosecution to present evidence and testimony in a preliminary hearing and a trial.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<h2>Granite Bay kidnapping<\/h2>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Wanner was cleaning her sister\u2019s Granite Bay home in November 1991 when she was kidnapped. While detailing the facts of the case on Tuesday, Tellman told the judge that Lawhead knocked at the door, brandished a gun and ordered her to leave the home with him.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Wanner was taken by a suspect, leaving behind her 11-month-old daughter in a high chair, where she was later found crying and alone.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The prosecutor said Lawhead held the woman at gunpoint as he drove her to a remote area of Placer County, where he raped her and strangled her. Tellman said a quail hunter in the area spotted her body a few weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/newsom-fined-by-campaign-finance-watchdog-just-prior-to-doj-probe-announcement-2\/\">Newsom fined by campaign finance watchdog just prior to DOJ probe announcement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>After Lawhead was identified as the suspect in Wanner\u2019s murder, investigators searched for him. Placer County Sheriff Wayne Woo said the wanted suspect seemed to have \u201cjust disappeared\u201d in 2005. They couldn\u2019t find any records for him, even though he had been ordered by a court to register as a convicted sex offender.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office produced a video about the cold case\u2019s identified suspect. Sheriff\u2019s officials were about to release the video, hoping the public could help investigators find Lawhead.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<div> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"314\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Freel%2F25870775162595547%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, sheriff\u2019s investigators contacted law enforcement agencies in other states with access to facial recognition technology. Woo said a crime analyst from the Scottsdale Police Department in Arizona used the technology and found a match in a state Department of Transportation database. That information led investigators to a home in Bullhead, Arizona, where authorities found Lawhead on April 24 and arrested him.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<h2>Wanted suspect found in Arizona<\/h2>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Woo said investigators believe Lawhead-Steele had been communicating with her brother. He had been living, investigators believe, under a false name at the Arizona home owned by his sister. The sheriff said investigators questioned her about her brother\u2019s whereabouts in March.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe still denied any knowledge, said she hadn\u2019t seen or heard from her brother in over 20 years and that he may have possibly been dead,\u201d Woo said in a news conference in April.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The day after her brother was arrested, Lawhead-Steele, who lives in San Clemente in Southern California, was arrested in Lancaster County, South Carolina. She was extradited about a month later and brought her back to California. She faces felony charges of accessory in Placer County.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Lawhead-Steele had lived in the Sacramento area up until four years ago, when she moved to Southern California to spend her retirement. Danielle Keller, her defense attorney, said in court that her client has a son and two grandsons who live in South Carolina, where she was visiting when she was arrested.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Keller said Lawhead-Steele has no previous arrests or criminal convictions. The defense attorney, who was asking a judge to release her client on her own recognizance, said Lawhead-Steele spent about four weeks in jail custody, forced to sleep on a makeshift bed on the floor because the jail cell was too crowded in South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Her brother was a convicted sex offender and had been released from prison 10 months before Wanner was killed.<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>The sheriff said Lawhead was sentenced to spend 19 years in prison for brutally attacking a 71-year-old grandmother and raping her 11-year-old granddaughter in 1980 in Sacramento County. He said Lawhead had broken into the home and beat the grandmother \u201cnearly to death.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>Woo said Lawhead was released from prison after serving 11 years of his sentence, despite a state psychiatrist classifying Lawhead \u201cas a mentally disordered sex offender who was not amenable to treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!--[--><\/p>\n<p>During Lawhead-Steele\u2019s arraignment last month, Tellman argued that she lied to authorities of her brother\u2019s whereabouts after he failed to register as a convicted sex offender. He said she also lied to investigators a few months ago when they were looking for her brother whose DNA was found on the body of the slain woman in 1991.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/sandiegorelocationnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/newsom-fined-by-campaign-finance-watchdog-just-prior-to-doj-probe-announcement\/\">Newsom fined by campaign finance watchdog just prior to DOJ probe announcement<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- --><!--]--><!--]--><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><!-- --><\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Placer County cold case suspect pleaded guilty to murder in the 1991 death of a Rancho Cordova mother who was kidnapped, sexually assaulted and strangled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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