On the day she changed the lock to stop him, 25-year-old Laura Sardinha was on the phone with her mother and best friend, and it sounded reassuring to do it with her boyfriend Craig J. Charron.

She has issued a restraining order against him, the latest of several women. She asked him to move out of her Huntington Beach apartment. She won't answer his phone number.

However, on the afternoon of September 2, 2020, her phone was interrupted when he showed up in the apartment. She left a shocking 37-second voicemail when he attacked her with multiple swords.

“If you listen carefully, you’ll hear a woman telling her murder,” Orange County agent. Atti. Janine Madera told jurors during the trial in Santa Ana this week in Charron.

After less than a day of deliberation, 39-year-old Charron was found on Tuesday by jurors.

Sardinha had served as an assistant to the bartender, but the 2019 motorcycle accident prevented her from grabbing a good enough knife to chop the lemon, as the job required. She is pursuing her online psychology degree and has been dating Air Force veteran Charron for several months.

According to the testimony, Sardinha received a $750,000 settlement after the accident and gave him nearly $100,000. "Thank you for showing me that you are mine." He texted her after receiving a considerable portion.

Two weeks before the murder, Sardinha texted him that she couldn't hear it because he had already had ear drums. During the communication she recorded on her phone, she could be heard saying, "You keep hitting me."

He replied: “Massage my calf or end this relationship.”

Sardinha was killed one morning, and Sardinha told a friend that Charron woke up for her need for oral sex. She recorded herself begging him to leave her alone and let her fall asleep.

"Can you leave?" she asked repeatedly. "Please stay away from me."

He said, “All I want is to be with you.”

"You scared me because you don't leave."

Later, he could photograph himself in the apartment and he could hear, "Oh my goodness, don't hit me... Laura, why are you hitting me?" She tried to ignore him as she sat in the sofa yard.

Just before noon, she went to the rental office to ask if she could replace the lock. The apartment manager saw Charron approaching and asked her to hide inside and took her back to the apartment. A maintenance officer replaced her lock.

Charron texts and calls, but she ignores him. At around 1:15 p.m., when they heard her crying, she made a three-line call with her mom and her best friend: “Oh my god, he’s here.”

It is not clear how Charron got into her apartment. With his account, he just walked through the unlocked door.

Her friend hung up and called after 911, Sardinha called her, leaving a voicemail where she could scream, “He’s going to kill me!” and “stay away from me!”

Prosecutors said Charon stabbed Sardinha twice in the chest, almost cutting his nose open, stabbed her in the head, bent over a stubborn tomato knife he was using.

Police arrived shortly afterwards and found Sardinha dead, Charron flowing from the wound to his chest and neck. Prosecutors suggested that he impose his steps with a jagged steak knife to strengthen his story, saying that Sardinha attacked him.

"It doesn't matter if he's a wound from a self-injury or defending himself for himself," Madeira said. "He's a 100% invader."

He is about 6 feet tall and 220 pounds tall, 9 inches taller than Sardinha and 100 pounds heavier.

"She can't use a knife to cut lemons and limes reliably, let alone defend her life," Madeira said. "He stood on her."

Charron, with his own defense, described himself as a former combat doctor whose 100% disability rating was received in Virginia for psychiatric treatment. He said he did not remember the confrontation with Sardinha, calling it "Hidden". But he insisted that she came to him with a knife and stabbed her in self-defense.

"I don't know much about what's going on right now," he said. "It took me a second to understand that I was cut off."

During the trial, Charron's three ex-girlfriends testified that they had already issued a restraining order against him. A woman said he choked her and knocked her to the head with a bottle of wine. Another said he patted her and poured the vodka on her head. One third said he nailed her to the wall and hit a man in her company.

“He has problems with control,” Madeira told the jurors. “He doesn’t care about women who want free will.”

Defense attorney Michael Guisti said in his closing remarks that despite his client’s history of violence, it was “violence without force” and pointed out that evidence suggests he may be acting in passion or self-defense.

Charron's wounds were severe enough that he was "basically dead" and had to be resurrected. "They need you to believe he forged the wound," Guasti said.

Madera described Sardinha's death as a "cold-hearted murder" and pointed to her last-minute voicemail.

"You didn't hear the defendant above, and his silence was absolutely refreshing," she said. "He likes to take the time to kill her."

High Court Judge Michael Cassidy set July 25 as the date of sentencing.