The defense attorney for a man linked by DNA evidence to the deaths of two women in Montclair and Burbank in the 1980s told jurors in closing argument Wednesday that prosecutors failed to prove his client raped and strangled the women.
"That the defendant, who's having sex with all these women, is just being followed around by a serial killer.", the defense told jurors that prosecutors failed to prove Van Vaultz Jr. raped and strangled the women.
Hobdy argued that his client, Horace Van Vaultz, Jr., had consensual sex with the women, and theorized that someone else appeared after those encounters and committed the Selena Keough's body was found under bushes near an apartment building in Montclair on July 16, 1981. Her murder went unsolved for decades until a male DNA profile extracted from her body was uploaded to a law enforcement database and it matched a profile found in the June 9, 1986 murder of Mary Duggan, whose body was found in the trunk of a car in Burbank., the same technique that was used to identify, arrest, and prosecute the so-called"Golden State Killer.
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