In May of 1997, police responded to a motel and found 18-year-old Kimberly Fritz dead, officials said. DNA was recovered from Fritz at the scene, officials said. Fritz was born in Michigan, and her cause of death was later deemed to be strangulation, officials said.
Then in 2023, Ventura County Sheriff's Cold Case Unit started reexamining the homicides, officials said. Officials uploaded DNA into the nationwide database and got a match for Warren Luther Alexander, a long-haul cross country truck driver from Diamondhead, Mississippi, officials said.
"It is the matching of our evidence against the North Carolina one that led us here today," District Attorney Erik Nasarenko said in the press conference. Alexander has been charged with three counts of murder, authorities said.
Officials believe there are additional victims both nationally and locally, Nasarenko said. Ventura County is about a 70-mile drive northwest of Los Angeles.
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