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   A California tree trimmer was found guilty in five brutal throat-   
   slashing attacks that left three people dead in the span of two   
   months, prosecutors announced Wednesday.   
      
   Ryan Blinston, 37, was convicted by a jury in Butte County of   
   murder, attempted murder and arson, the Tehama County District   
   Attorney’s office said.   
      
   The Orville, California, serial killer faces a mandatory   
   sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.   
      
   Blinston was working for a tree-trimming service when in May and   
   June 2020, he returned to his clients’ homes in Butte and Tehama   
   counties, north of Sacramento, after the work was completed and   
   slit the throats of the residents, prosecutors said.   
      
   In May 2020, he attacked Loreen Severs, 88, of Los Molinos in   
   Tehama County and her husband, Homer Severs, 91. Homer survived   
   the attack but died that December of an unrelated illness,   
   authorities said.   
      
   Blinston was also charged in the killing of Sandra George, 82,   
   and an acquaintance, Vicky Cline, 57, both of Oroville in Butte   
   County. He was also charged with torching Cline’s car.   
      
   Cline’s body was found by fishermen in the Feather River near   
   Belden on June 21.   
      
   “Damage to her throat was consistent with the other victims,”   
   prosecutors said.   
      
   Blinston was arrested before dawn on June 14, 2020 — about a   
   week after Cline vanished — by a Butte County sheriff’s SWAT   
   team that had tracked him to a motorhome in heavily wooded and   
   isolated Brush Creek, where authorities planned to arrest him on   
   suspicion of burning Cline’s car, prosecutors said.   
      
   The team approached the motorhome and heard the muffled screams   
   of a man inside and loud banging. The banging turned out to be   
   Blinston attempting to break into the motorhome with a hatchet,   
   prosecutors said.   
      
   Blinston fled into the woods, refused to drop the hatchet and   
   was captured after cops deployed a stun gun and pepper spray to   
   subdue him during a brief tussle.   
      
   Blinston had met the 50-year-old owner of the motorhome and then   
   stayed over because he told the man he was afraid to leave after   
   dark because of bears, the resident told authorities.   
      
   The man said he was sleeping when he awoke to find Blinston   
   attacking him with a knife, prosecutors said.   
      
   Blinston slashed his neck but the man said he was able to kick   
   him out of the motorhome and lock the door. A medic treated the   
   seriously injured man and he was airlifted to a hospital, they   
   said.   
      
   The SWAT team may have saved the man’s life, prosecutors said,   
   because the isolated area had no cellphone service and it was   
   unlikely anyone would have heard the man’s cries for help.   
      
   Prosecutors didn’t mention a motive for the crimes other than to   
   say robbery was not a motivating factor.   
      
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