Christopher Clements, 42, murdered six-year-old Isabel Celis in 2012 after snatching her from her parents’ bedroom.
This was not his first crime as he’s previously been convicted of murdering 13-year-old Maribel Gonzalez, whose remains were found in the same Arizona desert as Celis.
At Pima County Superior Court on Wednesday he was sentenced to life in jail.
But he went ranting about his sentencing, branding his conviction a ‘Stalingrad show trial of the Soviet era’ and ‘Hitler’s fascist government’.
What He Said
‘I still maintain my innocence,’ he said. ‘It’s inconceivable how any person with even a semblance of pragmatism or objectivity could call what just happened a fair trial.’
‘I’m not sure if you were simply repeating some platitude that you gleaned from law school or the History Channel in an effort to embellish the very (unintelligible) of your court.
Speaking in an emotionless manner, he added that the prosecuting case against him would make Russian dictator Joseph Stalin ‘proud’.
How He Was Caught
Clements became a suspect in the case five years after Celis vanished when he told FBI agents he could lead them to her remains in exchange for charges in another case being dropped.
He was arrested in 2018 over the deaths of Celis and Gonzalez, and sentenced to serve the remainder of his life behind bars for the latter murder in 2022.
