Pearl Fernandez was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole in June 2018 ...

Austin Turner is a web producer at CBS News Los Angeles. An Inland Empire native, Austin earned a degree in journalism from San Jose State University in 2020. Before joining CBS News in 2025, he ...

Gabriel Fernandez died in 2013 after being repeatedly abused by his mother and her boyfriend The life and death of eight-year-old Gabriel Fernandez will be explored in a new six-part documentary ...

Most Shocking Details About the Murder at Heart of Netflix Documentary. Gabriel Fernandez was only 8 years old when he was ...

A California mother who was convicted of first-degree murder after keeping her 8-year-old son locked in a box is petitioning for a resentencing after being previously denied. Pearl Fernandez, 42, of ...

A Los Angeles judge Monday, March 30, denied a bid for resentencing by a Palmdale woman who pleaded guilty to the first-degree murder of her 8-year-old son — who was routinely beaten, starved, forced ...

Pearl Fernandez enters her guilty plea on Feb. 15, 2018, in the death of her son. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) Monday was an emotionally charged day for the relatives of Gabriel Fernandez, ...