Man charged with 1973 murder of Newport beach’s Linda O’Keefe, 11, faces new Riverside County charges
Prosecutors announced additional charges filed against Neal, a long-time Southern California resident
March 13, 2019
"....Prosecutors announced additional charges filed against Neal, a long-time Southern California resident, for two other alleged sexual assaults they say occurred in Riverside County. One victim was assaulted sometime from 1995 to 2000, prosecutors contend, and the other sometime in 2002-04.
Dressed in a jailhouse jumpsuit, 72-year-old James Alan Neal looked slowly across the small courtroom in the Central Jail Complex in Santa Ana, simply answering, “Yes, sir” when asked by a judge if he accepted the appointment of a public defender.
Neal was taken into custody last month in connection to the killing decades ago of Linda Ann O’Keefe, a long-awaited arrest authorities say was made possible through advances in DNA technology.
According to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office, Neal is facing one felony count of murder while engaged in the commission or attempted commission of the performance of lewd acts upon a child under the age of 15.
He is also now facing five additional counts of lewd or lascivious acts upon a child under the age of 14, the DA’s Office announced on Wednesday morning.
It wasn’t clear when the alleged lewd acts against the other two victims occurred.
The court records in the case remained sealed, and the criminal complaint was not available.
Neal, who was transported to Orange County this week after opting not to fight his extradition to California following his arrest in Colorado, did not enter a plea. He is being held without bond, with a
bail review hearing set for March 29....."
Man charged with 1973 murder of Newport beach’s Linda O’Keefe, 11, faces new Riverside County charges – Orange County Register
