Makayla Settles' Father Pleads Guilty | True Crime News

In Ventura County, Stephen Chavez pleaded guilty to incest after sexually assaulting his 18-year-old biological daughter Makayla Settles two days after she moved across the country to live with him; Makayla died by suicide five months later, and her family says the maximum three-year sentence he faces is not justice. And in Bakersfield, the preliminary hearing is finally underway more than two years after a woman was shot and killed after tracking her stolen Dodge Hellcat with an AirTag and confronting the men who took it; the accused shooter rejected a plea deal, sending the case to trial.

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