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Man charged in three 1970s California murders after DNA match

Collage of three young women in portrait.
Velvet Ann Sanchez, Kimberly Carol Fritz, Lorraine Ann Rodriguez. Photograph: Ventura county sheriff's office

A 73-year-old man has been charged in the strangulation deaths of three southern California women in 1977, after cold case detectives obtained a DNA match. Authorities said they believe there could be more victims.

Warren Luther Alexander of Diamondhead, Mississippi, made his first court appearance on Thursday but his arraignment on three counts of first-degree murder was postponed until later in August, the Ventura county district attorney’s office said. Alexander remained jailed without bail.

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