SAN DIEGO -- The California Supreme Court Monday upheld the death sentence for an actor who killed two ex-girlfriends and a former Navy buddy in the mid-1990s in San Diego County.

Ramon Rogers was convicted in 1997 of murdering Beatrice Toronczak, Rose Albano and Ron Stadt, and a jury recommended that he be put to death.

Toronczak's remains were found in 1996 in a storage area of Rogers' College Area apartment. She and Rogers had a son together.

Albano's body parts were discovered in a plastic bag in Valley Center.

Stadt went missing in June 1993 and his body was never found.

Today, the state Supreme Court affirmed the death sentence handed down by Superior Court Judge Frederic Link.

Rogers, an actor, musician and businessman, had no criminal record before he was charged with the murders.

Prosecutors said Rogers killed Stadt because the victim had discovered that he was having an affair with Stadt's estranged wife and planned to use evidence of the relationship in his child custody dispute.

Albano was killed because she wouldn't get an abortion as Rogers wanted and wouldn't move out of their apartment, prosecutors said.

Toronczak disappeared after moving into an apartment with Rogers, who had to move his then-girlfriend to a different residence because Toronczak didn't want her son around the new girlfriend, according to prosecutors.

Rogers' attorneys maintained the defendant had no motive to kill any of the victims.