Amber Willard
PASADENA - Prosecutors will seek the death penalty for a man accused
of the strangling death of a pregnant Glendale woman.
The official announcement was made in Pasadena Superior Court on
Wednesday, although the attorney for Dr. Kevin Paul Anderson was notified
by letter June 8, said a spokeswoman for the L.A. County district
attorney's office.
Anderson is accused of strangling Dr. Deepti Gupta, 33, on Nov. 11 in
the Angeles National Forest and pushing her SUV off of cliff.
Anderson, a 41-year-old neonatologist, and Gupta, a pediatrician, had
planned to open a practice together but the deal had fallen through,
prosecutors said.
Officials had said the soured deal was a motive for the murder, but
prosecutorial evidence submitted to the grand jury in January suggested
the colleagues were having an affair and Gupta had threatened to tell
Anderson's wife. Anderson of La Verne was indicted on a capital murder
charge in January.
