Harbor Area serial killing case hits 'Dateline'
NBC's Dateline will take a look at a prominent Harbor Area case in its June 13 broadcast.Adolph Laudenberg, now 81, was sentenced to life in prison last year for killing 43-year-old San Pedro resident Lois Petrie in 1975.
Laudenberg is suspected in the deaths of Catherine Medina and Anna Catherine Felch in the San Pedro area in 1974, and Leah Griffin in San Francisco in 1975.
The killings had been unsolved for decades and were the subject of a Daily Breeze story in 2002.
In 2003, Los Angeles police detectives tied Laudenberg to the crimes after his former daughter-in-law told officers he confessed to killing four women.
They arrested him after collecting a coffee cup from a restaurant and tying his DNA to Petrie's death.
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Not only did her kill Anne Feltch, but her son committed suicide after that. Her son's best friend committed suicide after that. She was so loved in out little neighborhood. Let this man spend his last days in prison.