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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Monday was an emotionally charged day for the relatives of Gabriel Fernandez, the 8-year-old boy who was brutally tortured to death by his mother, Pearl Fernandez, and her boyfriend in the worst child ...

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 ...

Netflix has released its most powerful and gut wrenching true-crime documentary yet. From filmmaker Brian Knappenberger comes The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez, a six-part series that examines the ...

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, ...