A 73-year-old man has pleaded not guilty in a Southern California cold case alleging he strangled three women in 1977. The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office says Warren Luther Alexander of Diamondhead, Mississippi, was arraigned Wednesday on charges filed after use of DNA in the investigation of the long-unsolved killings.
VENTURA, Calif. — A 73-year-old man pleaded not guilty Wednesday in a Southern California cold case alleging he strangled three women in 1977, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office said.of Diamondhead, Mississippi, was arraigned on murder charges filed after use of DNA in the investigation of the long-unsolved killings.
All the California victims were sex workers in Ventura County, District Attorney Erik Nasarenko said earlier this month. A match to Alexander occurred last year when DNA evidence was uploaded into a national database, according to the district attorney.
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