Trucker serial killer arrested 47 years later

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Bill Cannon Police off the Cuff/Real Crime Stories

True Crime, Military, Law Enforcement, Crime

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🗓️ 12 August 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Trucker, serial killer arrested 47 years later. #warrenlutheralexander #serialkiller #trucker Almost 50 years after three women were strangled in Ventura County, cold case investigators said Thursday that they’d identified a man suspected of the serial killings. Through modern DNA technology and increasingly advanced data sharing across law enforcement agencies, homicide detectives were able to connect the dots on Warren Luther Alexander, 73, who was extradited this week from North Carolina — where he is awaiting prosecution in a cold case killing from 1992 — and is now being held in Ventura County Jail without bail. These cold cases — three in Southern California, one in North Carolina — could be just the tip of the iceberg. (LA Times)

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone and welcome to police off the cuff real crime stories.
0:14.9	I'm your host, retired NYPD Sergeant Bill Cannon, 27-year veteran of the NYPD.
0:21.9	You know, these serial killer cases are just, you know, they're so savage, but yet they are so interesting.
0:30.9	They are just amazingly interesting.
0:33.7	And here's a case of an over-the-road truck driver who happens to be 73 years old,
0:43.1	who based on DNA hits, gets arrested for three murders that occurred 47 years ago.
0:57.0	47 years ago, he's accused of killing these three women who happen to be escorts.
1:06.0	Kimberly Fritz, Velvet Sanchez, and Lorraine Rodriguez, you see the thumbnail up on the screen.
1:13.6	And DNA nails this trucker, a serial killer now known as Warren Luther Alexander.
1:22.3	And there's no better probably profession for a serial killer than an over-the-road trucker
1:29.7	because he's traveling from town to town.
1:33.4	He's traveling all over, but in this case in California.
1:37.6	And it turns out that Warren Alexander lived in Oxnard in the late 1950s and 1960s and attended elementary school,
1:49.1	middle school, and first two years of high school in Oxnard.
1:53.6	He worked as an electrician with the U.S. Marine Corps and returned to Oxnard in the 1970s through the 1990s,
2:01.1	and he was a long haul cross-country truck driver.
2:07.4	Scary, right?
2:08.7	Scary.
2:09.9	But when we think about the technology now,
2:13.9	the Kodis database,
2:15.8	and I talk about this all the time of anyone who's new to watching this show,
2:20.7	CODIS stands for a combined DNA index system, which is collected and maintained by the FBI.
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