Kenneth Friedman
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- Gender
- male
- Country
- USA
- Location
- Torrance, Los Angeles County, California, USA
- Date of birth
- 1953
- Age at first offence
- 41
- Characteristics
- kidnapping, robbery, drugs
- Victim profile
- Peter Kovach, 26, and Ted Gould, 29
- Method of murder
- Strangulation
- Date(s) of murder
- October 26, 1994
- Years active
- 1994
- Date of arrest
- —
- Status
-
Sentenced to death
Sentenced to death on December 2, 2005
Background
Kenneth Friedman was a double murderer who pleaded guilty to killing two men.
The offence
Kenneth Friedman was sentenced to die for the 1994 strangulation slayings of two Redondo Beach men: Peter Kovach, 26, and Ted Gould, 29. Peter Kovach had been a one-time drug dealer. Friedman abducted both men from a Torrance telecommunications store where they worked, and then strangled them.
Sentencing
On December 2, 2005, Kenneth Friedman was sentenced to death.
At sentencing, Friedman told the judge that he would not fear death and would “embrace it.”
“embrace it”
Kenneth Friedman was 52 at the time of sentencing.
Friedman’s guilty pleas were entered for killing Peter Kovach and Ted Gould after abducting them from the Torrance telecommunications store where they worked.
Friedman joined roughly 650 other people on California’s death row.
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