Postmortem examinations revealed that a jail inmate who died last fall while awaiting trial in a cold-case murder succumbed to natural causes, authorities said Thursday.
The cause of Alfredo Hernandez’s death in a hospital on Nov. 26 was pneumonia, according to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Office.
Hernandez, who allegedly strangled his on-again, off-again girlfriend at her Emerald Hills home decades ago, had been admitted to an intensive-care unit 11 days earlier after being stricken by severe shortness of breath while jailed at the George F. Bailey Detention Facility in Otay Mesa…