POMONA, Calif.—A man who doused the mother of his four children with gasoline and set her on fire during a domestic dispute in Pomona on Christmas Day 2015 was sentenced Nov. 30 to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Clarence Durell Dear, 58, was convicted in October of first-degree murder, and jurors found true a special-circumstance allegation of murder involving the infliction of torture of Dawn Hensley.
