Prosecutor tells jury rapist killed 3 prostitutes for fun

STOCKTON -- In closing arguments Thursday in the murder trial of a convicted rapist, a prosecutor characterized the deaths of three women as "joy killing."

Fifty-four-year-old William Jennings Choyce of Stockton faces the death penalty if convicted in San Joaquin County Superior Court of the three killings dating to 1988. The prosecutor said the women were shot, then left in sexual poses in secluded areas. The women, two from Stockton and one from Oakland, were prostitutes.