A 71-year-old man already serving a murder sentence in a Texas jail was linked through DNA evidence to the 1993 death of a mother of four from Tulare, California.
The Riverside County District Attorney’s Office said Douglas Thomas’s DNA recovered from a separate 1992 murder investigation led to a murder charge in the death of 30-year-old Sherri Herrera.
In March 1993, Herrera’s body was found on an on-ramp to the I-10 Freeway at Desert Center in Riverside County. Prosecutors said she was last seen alive days before her body was discovered…