Suspected serial killer who was long-haul truck driver charged after DNA links him to 47-year-old murders

A suspected serial killer has been charged with the murders of three women in Southern California nearly 50 years ago. 

Kimberly Fritz, 18, Velvet Sanchez, 31, and Lorraine Rodriguez, 21, were all strangled to death in 1977, but investigators ran out of leads at the time. 

"While believing these three crimes were indeed connected, leads ran cold, and detectives were unable to identify who was responsible for these horrific murders," Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko said at a press conference this week.

Warren Luther Alexander of Diamondhead, Mississippi, who worked as a long-haul truck driver at the time, was linked to the murders when his DNA matched the crime scenes after being uploaded to the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), a national database, last year. 

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