the deadly COVID-19 virus.CBS San Francisco reported the news on Thursday, declaring the criminal was “pronounced dead Tuesday at an outside hospital from what appears to be complications related to COVID-19".They added that the Californian was 67-years-old at the time of death, and that “an exact cause of death will be determined by the coroner.”Mr Beames was convicted of the torture and murder of a 15-month-old girl in 1994 who was the daughter of his live-in girlfriend.He was convicted of first degree murder after an autopsy revealed the tot’s liver had almost been severed after receiving a powerful blow to the abdomen.While the child’s mother was sentenced to 25 years-to-life behind bars for allowing the abuse to continue, Mr Beames was.