A cold case from 1994 has been solved, with a man convicted of kidnapping an Oakridge Mall employee. DNA evidence linked the suspect, Thomas John Loguidice, to the crime while he was serving a prison sentence for a separate sex abuse conviction.
A jury convicted a man of kidnapping an Oakridge Mall employee over three decades ago. Thomas John Loguidice, 67, was found guilty Wednesday of one felony charge of aggravated kidnapping with intent for robbery in a Jan. 13, 1994 attack on a then-21-year-old Denise Crank. Loguidice had been serving a 40-year sentence in a Soledad prison for a 2012 child sex abuse conviction in San Benito County when he was linked to the mall kidnapping.
In the summer of 2022, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office cold-case unit revisited the case and eventually matched forensic evidence preserved from the crime scene with a DNA profile Loguidice was required to submit after his conviction. At Loguidice’s scheduled sentencing Jan. 15, the new conviction could add a maximum term of seven years to life in prison on top of his current sentence, and could push his parole eligibility date back to 2039
KIDNAPPING COLD CASE DNA EVIDENCE OAKRIDGE MALL SAN JOSE
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