Left inset: Anthony Newton. Right inset: Ulyses “Cesar” Molina. Background: An area in Las Vegas where Anthony Newton disposed of Ulyses Cesar Molina’s remains (KLAS/YouTube).
A Nevada man is headed to prison for killing his wife‘s paramour, who he claimed had an affair with her while he was in prison. The husband then spent days dismembering the victim before hiding his head, hands and other body parts around town.
Anthony Newton, 46, of Las Vegas, “placed his foot onto” the neck of Ulyses “Cesar” Molina and “applied such force” that he caused his death, according to court documents viewed by Law&Crime.
Newton was sentenced this week to life in prison without parole for the 2016 slaying, with prosecutors saying he spent days dismembering Molina after murdering him with help from his brother-in-law, George Malaperdas, who pleaded guilty in 2020 to second-degree murder.
Newton — who spent time in prison for killing a woman in 1996 when he was a teenager — chopped up Molina, set his remains on fire and scattered some of them around town, with a Henderson woman finding one of Molina’s hands in her mailbox. The man’s head was never found.
“It takes a different kind of horrific mentality to do something like that to another human being,” Chief Deputy District Attorney Bill Flinn said at Newton’s sentencing on Tuesday, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
Court documents say Newton and Malaperdas teamed up to attack and tie Molina up with shoestrings as an act of revenge for the alleged affair. A witness who knew Newton told police they saw him “use his foot to apply pressure to Molina’s neck until Molina was not moving anymore,” according to court documents.
“This is about a deep-seated hatred,” Flinn said in court back in February. “It was about disrespect.”
Malaperdas claimed he was called by Newton to come to an apartment where he and Molina were. When he arrived at the apartment, Newton was holding a revolver and Molina was lying on the apartment floor.
“Malaperdas said Molina was a friend of his, up until the time Molina started sleeping with his sister … who is Anthony Newton’s wife,” according to court documents. After stepping on Molina and crushing his throat, Newton and Malaperdas dragged Molina into the bathroom and placed him in the tub.
“Malaperdas took the clothing off the body of Molina,” the court documents say, noting how Malaperdas took a bedspread and wrapped Molina’s body in it. “Newton had Malaperdas assist in the dismemberment of Molina’s body.”
Newton went on trial in 2024, but the proceedings were declared a mistrial after a witness told jurors that Newton had spent time in prison.
At Newton’s second trial in 2025, jurors were unable to reach a verdict. He was convicted in February 2026 of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder and first-degree kidnapping.
Malaperdas is scheduled to be sentenced on June 16.
