The suspected killer in three Southern California cold cases from 1977 has been identified as 73-year-old man and investigators believe there may be more victims, Ventura County authorities announced last week.
Warren Luther Alexander, 73, has been charged with three counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of three women in Ventura County, District Attorney Erik Nasarenko told reporters at a Thursday news conference.
“We do believe there are additional victims both locally and in other states,” Nasarenko said.
Alexander, a former long-haul truck driver who grew up in Southern California, is accused of strangling Kimberly Carol Fritz, Lorraine Ann Rodriguez and Velvet Ann Sanchez, sex workers who were killed and found across Ventura County 47 years ago.
Alexander was extradited to California from North Carolina where he was being held on separate cold-case murder charges.
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Fritz was 18 when she died in Port Hueneme May 29, 1977. Sanchez, 31, died in Oxnard Sept. 8, 1977.