Nearly half a century after a Barrio Logan killing stunned a neighborhood, a 73-year-old Chula Vista man is finally facing a judge in connection with the case. Mitchell Hernandez appeared for a preliminary hearing yesterday at the downtown San Diego courthouse on a first-degree murder charge tied to a 1976 stabbing. This week, prosecutors highlighted DNA that authorities say links Hernandez to material found under the victim’s fingernails, along with fingerprints taken decades ago from a refrigerator at the scene that investigators later matched to him. The victim, Leo Marquina, was found stabbed inside his Harrison Avenue home on Nov. 10, 1976.
Prosecutors Lean On Fresh Forensic Matches
Prosecutors told the court that DNA attributed to Hernandez…..