{"id":252193,"date":"2026-04-04T23:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252193\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T23:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T23:13:13","slug":"man-guilty-of-murdering-girlfriend-in-el-segundo-hotel-her-body-was-never-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/252193\/","title":{"rendered":"Man guilty of murdering girlfriend in El Segundo hotel. Her body was never found"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A man was found guilty Friday of murdering his girlfriend four years ago in an El Segundo hotel room, according to authorities. <\/p>\n<p>Luis Antonio Gomes Akay, 39, was found guilty of one count of first-degree murder in the death of 22-year-old Anna Laura Costa Porsberg, according to  the Los Angeles County district attorney\u2019s office. A jury deliberated for less than three hours before reaching its verdict. <\/p>\n<p>He faces 20 years to life in state prison and is scheduled to appear at an April 27 sentencing hearing, according to the release. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor over three years, Anna\u2019s family and friends have waited for justice. Today the jury has spoken, returned its guilty verdict for first-degree murder against this sociopath and justice has arrived,\u201d Los Angeles County  Dist. Atty. Nathan Hochman said in a  news release. \u201cSo-called \u2018no body\u2019 cases are some of the most difficult to prove because they rely so heavily on circumstantial evidence.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Anna Laura Costa Porsborg vanished in December 2022 and is presumed dead.\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"962\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775344393_94_.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>         <\/p>\n<p>Anna Laura Costa Porsborg vanished in December 2022 and is presumed dead. Her boyfriend, Luis Gomes Akay, was found guilty of her murder.<\/p>\n<p>(Erbena Costa)<\/p>\n<p>On Christmas Eve in 2022, Gomes Akay and Porsberg checked into a hotel in El Segundo after traveling from New Jersey, according to the release. They visited several locations in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>On Dec. 27, 2022, the couple got into an argument after they went to a bowling alley, according to the release. Porsberg wasn\u2019t seen or heard from again. Gomes Akay was seen two days later dragging a large suitcase from the hotel. <\/p>\n<p>Cellphone and GPS evidence showed Gomes Akay driving to the Angeles National Forest, where he was for an hour, according to the release. He went back to the hotel and reported his girlfriend missing. <\/p>\n<p>Gomes Akay was \u201ccontrolling, jealous and possessive,\u201d according to the release. Witnesses flew from Brazil to testify that his ex-girlfriend, 24-year-old Ana Claudia Dos Santos, went missing in Brazil after breaking up with him. Her body was also never found.<\/p>\n<p>Two of Gomes Akay\u2019s friends testified during the trial that he often said, \u201cno body, no crime,\u201d according to the release. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was found guilty Friday of murdering his girlfriend four years ago in an El Segundo hotel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2789,112025,6295,1576,48397,29663,719,48,52,51,47,50,49,63,111719,1555,112026,5274,2335,18080,72],"class_list":{"0":"post-252193","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-body","9":"tag-el-segundo-hotel","10":"tag-first-degree-murder","11":"tag-friend","12":"tag-girlfriend","13":"tag-jury","14":"tag-justice","15":"tag-la","16":"tag-la-headlines","17":"tag-la-news","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","20":"tag-los-angeles-news","21":"tag-los-angeles-times","22":"tag-luis-antonio-gomes-akay","23":"tag-man","24":"tag-porsberg","25":"tag-release","26":"tag-today","27":"tag-verdict","28":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252193","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=252193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}