Gomez killed men who were living rough or travelling on the roads and railways of California between 1949 and 1951, robbing them of whatever they had.
He was convicted and executed in the gas chamber at San Quentin on October 16, 1953.
The figure of nine is what the accessible sources record, and the accessible sources amount to a single encyclopaedia entry in the compressed notation this roster reproduces: sex, race, type, motive, method, disposition. No victim is named. No date of any individual killing is given. There is no account of the investigation or the trial.
The selection is the only thing the record makes clear, and it is the same as in several other entries here: he killed men whose disappearance nobody would report, and the killings continued until something else brought him to notice.
The entry is retained on the fact of the execution. It is the ninth entry in this archive whose entire source base is one paragraph, and it should not be cited for nine murders.