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Canadian flew to California, posed as Amazon driver to try to kill woman he met in online gaming

Devin Wolfgang Vanderhoef received two consecutive life sentences for the 2024 attack in which he posed as an Amazon driver to try to kill a woman he met online and her boyfriend.

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Devin Wolfgang Vanderhoef received two consecutive life sentences for the 2024 attack in which he posed as an Amazon driver to try to kill a woman he met online and her boyfriend.

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According to Los Angeles Times’s source item, Canadian flew to California, posed as Amazon driver to try to kill woman he met in online gaming, Devin Wolfgang Vanderhoef received two consecutive life sentences for the 2024 attack in which he posed as an Amazon driver to try to kill a woman he met online and her boyfriend.

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