Conviction overturned in 2012 kidnapping and killing of Sierra LaMar

SAN JOSE — An appellate court has overturned the conviction for the man imprisoned for life in the 2012 disappearance and presumed killing of Sierra LaMar, a crime that captivated the region in part because the 15-year-old victim’s body has never been found.

Antolin Garcia Torres, 34, convinced a judicial panel from the 6th District Court of Appeal that consolidating three attempted kidnapping allegations — reported three years before Sierra’s disappearance from a bus stop in unincorporated Morgan Hill ...