{"id":251972,"date":"2026-04-04T19:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251972\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T19:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T19:35:09","slug":"california-man-convicted-of-murdering-missing-army-reservist-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251972\/","title":{"rendered":"California man convicted of murdering missing Army reservist girlfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">LOS ANGELES &#8211; A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Los Angeles<\/a> jury has convicted a man of first-degree murder in the 2022 death of his girlfriend, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/military\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">U.S. Army reservist <\/a>whose body was never recovered, during a vacation in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Southern California.<\/a><\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTTV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">In December 2022, U.S. Army reservist Anna Laura Costa Porsberg traveled from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/nj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">New Jersey <\/a>to Los Angeles with Luis Antonio Gomes Akay, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Following a dispute on December 27, Porsberg was never seen again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Surveillance footage captured Akay struggling with a heavy suitcase at their hotel, and GPS data later placed him in the Angeles National Forest for an hour.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">During the trial, friends of the defendant testified that he frequently used the phrase &#8220;no body, no crime&#8221; to suggest he could evade justice.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTTV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The exact location of Porsberg\u2019s remains is unknown.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Despite extensive searches in the Angeles National Forest following the GPS leads, investigators have not been able to recover her body.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">While testimony linked Akay to a similar disappearance of a former girlfriend in Brazil, he has not been charged in that jurisdiction.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTTV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">&#8220;For over three years, Anna\u2019s family and friends have waited for justice,&#8221; said Los Angeles County District Attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/people\/nathan-hochman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nathan J. Hochman.<\/a> &#8220;So-called \u2018no body\u2019 cases are some of the most difficult to prove because they rely so heavily on circumstantial evidence. I want to thank the investigators who methodically laid out the case piece-by-piece.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KTTV\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Akay will remain in custody pending his sentencing hearing on April 27 in Department 80 of the Airport Courthouse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">He faces a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in state prison.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This report is based on information from the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxla.com\/tag\/us\/ca\/los-angeles-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles County<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES &#8211; A Los Angeles jury has convicted a man of first-degree murder in the 2022 death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1184,7,9,8,2042,137,100,1181],"class_list":{"0":"post-251972","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-crime-publicsafety","13":"tag-los-angeles-county","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}