A man was found guilty of first-degree murder in the cold case killing of a California woman nearly 40 years after her death.
Aloysius James, 58, of Georgia, was found guilty of murdering Ofelia Sandoval, 30, in 1988 after she was found strangled to death in a motel room where she was living.
On Sept. 18, 1988, Santa Maria police responded to the Town Center Motel in the 200 block of N. Broadway where Sandoval’s body was discovered by her boyfriend, the Santa Maria Times reported…