article_snippet: Authorities said Murtaza and a friend torched the family's Anaheim Hills home and kidnapped and killed Dhanak's father and sister, leaving Murtaza and a friend stabbed bodies burning in a park 2 miles from Dhanak's dorm room at the University of California, Irvine.
article_snippet: Murtaza was stabbed and left unconscious on a neighbor's lawn.
article_snippet: Murtaza torched Murtaza ex-girlfriend's family's Orange County home after they broke-up, believing the murders of Murtaza family would reunited the murders of her family .
article_snippet: Authorities said Krasnoperov hatched the plot to kill the Dhanaks with Murtaza and tried to help Murtaza hire a hit man.
article_snippet: Authorities said another friend, Charles Murphy Jr., helped Murtaza carry out the killings after Dhanak said Murtaza planned to go on a date with someone else.
article_snippet: During the trial, Murtaza testified that Murtaza told many people Murtaza wanted to kill the Dhanaks because Murtaza was distraught over the breakup, but Murtaza said Murtaza didn't mean it literally.
article_snippet: Dhanak testified how Iftekhar Murtaza, seen in this August photo, murdered Dhanak husband and elder daughter in a failed attempt to win over Dhanak younger daughter .
article_snippet: Bloodbath: Autopsy reports showed Jayprakash Dhanak (left) suffered 29 stab wounds to Murtaza body, while a pathologist testified that Karishma Dhanak (right) was alive when Karishma Dhanak (right) throat was slit and Karishma Dhanak (right) set alight .
highlights_snippet: Found guilty of stabbing Jaypraykash Dhanak, 56, slitting the throat of his 20-year-old daughter, Karishma, and setting the throat of his 20-year-old daughter, Karishma bodies on fire .
  
highlights_snippet: Murtaza concocted the murder plot with two friends after Dhanka's youngest daughter, Shayona, broke up with his over religious differences .
  