Serial killer will face it all, together
Two-time death row inmate Rodney Alcala received a blow from the State Supreme Court today, which ruled that prosecutors in Orange and Los Angeles can try the suspected serial killer at one time for five murders. Two of the slayings have South Bay connections:
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Charlotte Lamb, 32, of Santa Monica, who was found strangled in the laundry room of an apartment in the 600 block of Illinois Court in El Segundo on June 24, 1978. The manager found her nude, except for a few pieces of jewelry and one shoe, according to Daily Breeze reports at the time. Police said they believe she was killed at the building, but there were no witnesses and none of the residents knew her.
- Georgia Wixted, 27, a nurse at Centinela Hospital in Inglewood, was found on Dec. 16, 1977, in her Malibu home naked with a hammer near her body. Blood found at the crime scene linked Alcala to her murder in 2003 and charges against him for her death were filed in Los Angeles then.
The 32-page Supreme Court opinion is available here. Photo of Alcala via the Orange County Register.
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Larry Altman has covered crime in the South Bay since 1990. He's seen it all - the missing model who turned up dead in the desert, the wives found dead in trunks, the high-school coaches who get a little too close to their players. He drives his young colleagues nuts with his "I remember when" stories. He welcomes your tips and observations about the present, and you can mix in a little Lakers basketball talk if you like.
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Denise Nix knew as young as grade school, when she spent every summer working on the camp newspaper, that she wanted to be a journalist. Denise has spent most of the last 12 years of her career in the courtroom. She joined the Daily Breeze in 2001, where she tracks and reports on hundreds of cases at every level of the justice system. And she's never, ever, seen a judge use a gavel.
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