‘Getreu was a deviant sex offender and serial killer who escaped justice for far too long,” one prosecutor said.
to advancing technology related to DNA genealogy analysis. The likely attempts from the 21-year-old victim to fight Getreu landed some of his DNA inside of her fingernails, her sister said in a hearing in January. Getreu admitted to the murder, as well as an attempted rape of Perlov in January.
The body of Perlov, a Stanford graduate working at a local law library, was found face down underneath an oak tree, west of her car parked off Old Page Mill Road following her Feb. 13, 1973, death. “Today before the court to be sentenced is a serial killer,” Deputy District Attorney Michel Amaral said in April. “This defendant has escaped justice for nearly 50 years. Since murdering Leslie in 1973, he has escaped justice until his arrest a couple of years ago in which he lived a free life.”
While the murder of Perlov proceeded through the Santa Clara County court system, authorities identified Getreu as the suspect in the subsequent 1974 murder of 21-year-old Stanford student Janet Ann Taylor, the daughter of former Cardinal athletic director and football coach Chuck Taylor. On March 25, 1974, Taylor was found strangled in a ditch by a truck driver on Sand Hill Road west of Interstate 280, just one day after she was reported missing. Getreu once again was named as a suspect due to DNA testing, which matched him with material found on with Taylor’s clothing.
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