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Jury Convicts Port Hueneme Man Of The Extensive Sexual Abuse Of 3 Little Girls
A Ventura County jury has convicted a Port Hueneme man of the extensive sexual abuse of three little girls. The panel found 44-year-old Jesus Andrew Sapien guilty of more than a dozen felony counts of lewd acts upon a child. The jury also found true 65 special allegations including that...
Suspected serial killer, 73, charged in 1977 cold case murders of 3 SoCal sex workers — and there ‘may be additional victims’
A “suspected serial killer” from Mississippi was charged in connection to the cold-case 1977 strangulations of three women in Southern California — and authorities believe there may be additional victims, prosecutors announced on Thursday. Warren Luther Alexander, 73, was charged with three counts of murder in Ventura County after he was extradited from North Carolina on Tuesday, where he is also awaiting prosecution for a separate 1992 cold case murder committed in Surry County. His three victims in California — Kimberly Carol Fritz, 18; Velvet Ann Sanchez, 31; and Ann Rodriguez, 21 — were all sex workers who were killed by “ligature...
Jury Convicts Oxnard Gang Member Of Murder
Updated--A Ventura County jury has found 24-year-old Michael Ortega of Oxnard guilty of murder in the December 2022 shotgun slaying of 20-year John Paul Carrillo of Oxnard. They also found true that it was gang-related. The authorities say that Ortega is a gang member. Carrillo's family says Carrillo was not.
DNA evidence connects accused serial killer to three cold cases in Southern California
North Carolina law enforcement extradited an accused serial killer to Southern California on Tuesday after prosecutors connected him to three killings from the 1970s. The Ventura County District Attorney's Office charged Mississippi native Warren Luther Alexander, 73, with three counts of first-degree murder after he allegedly strangled three women to death decades ago. Detectives connected him to the killings after law enforcement in North Carolina arrested him for another cold case murder from 1992. The alleged murders of Kimberly Carol Fritz, Velvet Ann Sanchez and Lorraine Ann Rodriguez happened months apart in 1977. While detectives exhausted all leads in their initial investigation, investigators reopened the case 46 years later in February 2023. The Ventura County Sheriff's Office assigned the case to its Cold Case Unit. Detectives said the breakthrough in the case happened thanks to DNA evidence collected at the crime scene and victims decades ago. Alexander appeared in Ventura County Superior Court for the first time on Wednesday. The court scheduled his arraignment on Aug. 21 at 9 a.m.In the meantime, Alexander will stay in jail on a no-bail hold.
Man arrested for 1992 Surry County killing charged in 3 California homicides
SURRY COUNTY, N.C. (WGHP) — A man who was charged in the cold case killing of a woman whose corpse was found in Surry County has been charged with three identical homicides on the other side of the country. KTLA reported on Wednesday that Warren Luther Alexander, of Diamondback, Mississippi, was charged with the 1977 […]
Three women were found strangled in California. Four decades later police arrest suspected serial killer
Back in 1977, three women were strangled and their bodies found dumped in California. For over four decades, no arrests were made and the case went cold.Now, police believe they have solved the mystery – and say that it was the work of a suspected serial killer already charged with murder across the country in North Carolina. Warren Luther Alexander was charged on Wednesday with the murders of three murders of Kimberly Carol Fritz, 18, Velvet Ann Sanchez, 31, and Lorraine Ann Rodriguez, 21, which all took place in Ventura County, California, in 1977.The three women were all strangled within...
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