Man charged with murder in connection with 3 strangulation deaths in Southern California in 1977

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73-year-old ex-trucker faces 3 murder charges in 1977 California strangulations

Warren Luther Alexander, 73, was charged with murder in the strangling deaths of 3 California women who were found dead in 1977, Ventura police said.

www.usatoday.com

Cold case suspect may be linked to fourth victim
Investigators are looking closely at the strangulation death of Cassandra Lee Miller, who was found dead on Oct. 1, 1975, at the Surfside Motel in Port Hueneme, according to Narasenko

73-year-old ex-trucker faces 3 murder charges in 1977 California strangulations

Warren Luther Alexander, 73, was charged with murder in the strangling deaths of 3 California women who were found dead in 1977, Ventura police said.

www.usatoday.com

 

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73-year-old ex-trucker faces 3 murder charges in 1977 California strangulations

Warren Luther Alexander, 73, was charged with murder in the strangling deaths of 3 California women who were found dead in 1977, Ventura police said.

www.usatoday.com

Cold case suspect may be linked to fourth victim
Investigators are looking closely at the strangulation death of Cassandra Lee Miller, who was found dead on Oct. 1, 1975, at the Surfside Motel in Port Hueneme, according to Narasenko

73-year-old ex-trucker faces 3 murder charges in 1977 California strangulations

Warren Luther Alexander, 73, was charged with murder in the strangling deaths of 3 California women who were found dead in 1977, Ventura police said.

www.usatoday.com

Police were searching victim DNA for one serial killer. They found possible new one

A 29-year-old woman strangled and abandoned on the interstate in 1992 matched the victim profile of ‘The Interstate Killer’. But DNA evidence instead linked her to another long haul truck driver — who has now been charged with four murders, writes Andrea Cavallier

www.the-independent.com

Is Cassandra Lee Miller the fifth victim?
In February 1978, Ventura County medical examiner Ronald Kornblum publicly suggested that the murders of Fritz, Sanchez, along with another woman, 26-year-old Cassandra Lee Miller, were likely connected.

Miller, another sex worker, was found dead in 1975 at the Port Hueneme Surfside Motel. She had been strangled and her body posed in a way similar to the others which appeared to intend to degrade them.

He told the Thousand Oaks Star at the time that he was “frankly a little surprised” that the links hadn’t been widely publicized

 

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https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article291116885.html

This article claims he moved to MS Diamondhead around the time of Hurricane Katrina.

All 3 Oxnard murders occurred close to home, they weren't disposed of in a different state like a lot of Long Haul serial killers would. Im wondering how close he lived to NC in 1992

 

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Warren may have been married.
I found a property record in Diamondhead from 2006, listing a Warren Alexander.

Then i found a 2018 document listing a Warren Alexander

So it sounds like the estimate that he moved to Diamondhead around Katrina is likely correct

Edited for privacy

 

[Betty P]

https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article291116885.html

This article claims he moved to MS Diamondhead around the time of Hurricane Katrina.

All 3 Oxnard murders occurred close to home, they weren't disposed of in a different state like a lot of Long Haul serial killers would. Im wondering how close he lived to NC in 1992

From your link, he had quite a temper, displayed regularly. He might have seemed normal to his friends, but that's not normal.

People who knew him remember Alexander’s frequent calls to police and his temper toward neighbors whose children wandered, unwittingly, onto his well-kept lawn.

Read more at: https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/crime/article291116885.html#storylink=cpy

Waitresses at several local restaurants said he would sometimes explode over an incorrect order. A golf cart blocking a sidewalk could also make him fume. “He just wasn’t a very nice person,” said Vanessa Benson, a former neighbor. “He didn’t smile. He didn’t wave.” Neighbors said Alexander frequently called police over petty disputes, like when someone stepped on his lawn or threw something on his grass. Benson recalled Alexander did not like her son riding a bike up his driveway. She said Alexander grew angry one day when her employee briefly pulled onto his property. “He had a short fuse,” said Forest Dobronich, another long-time neighbor.

Sounds like an entitled, anti-social, potentially violent jerk. Many people steered clear of him. DNA doesn't lie, buddy. I'll enjoy seeing him tried and sent to prison.

ETA: The article also says he hung out with his buddies at the country club, but didn't drink. Probably afraid of what he might say if he got drunk. He wrote letters to the editor complaining about "threats to Christianity". Scum.

Quote from his LTTE:

"Religion should be the muse of our societies, for as people we need unifying directions to keep us and our consciences in order.”

Oh, really. Nothing like a religious lecture from a serial killer.

 

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According to white pages, his address is:
9829 Pokai Way in Diamondhead, MS

Just a short golf cart ride away from the course.

A pretty tidy, well-manicured lawn for a 78 year old. Him having access to an RV is a little unsettling. Eek.

 

[Betty P]

According to white pages, his address is:
9829 Pokai Way in Diamondhead, MS

Just a short golf cart ride away from the course.

A pretty tidy, well-manicured lawn for a 78 year old. Him having access to an RV is a little unsettling. Eek.

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He's managed to live a pretty nice life since murdering all those innocent women. Maybe a nice lawsuit can allow the children of his victims to recoup damages from the sale of all this property.

 

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DNA links 1992 North Carolina murder to CA strangulation cold case; suspect pleads not guilty

A 73-year-old man was charged decades later with strangling and killing three women in California.

abc11.com

Warren plead not guilty on all counts

 

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Updated: Oct 21, 2024 rbbm

https://ktla.com/news/california/suspected-serial-killer-to-stand-trial-for-3-cold-case-murders-in-ventura-county/

''Another article from the Los Angeles Times stated that detectives initially noticed patterns in how the women’s bodies were arranged, almost identically, in a reportedly “degrading” fashion. Both Sanchez and Rodriguez were mothers, and Fritz had just finished high school, the Times reports.
It was through modern DNA technology and data sharing that detectives in 2023 were able to connect Alexander to the unresolved murders''.

''Alexander is scheduled for an information arraignment on Nov. 1 at the Ventura County Superior Court. The D.A.’s office said he remains in county jail without bail.''

 

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in may of 1987, Mary Elizabeth Reeves, 43, body was found off the side of i65 in Alabama. She was nude and had died from a blow to the head. She had a bra wrapped around her neck. she may have died somewhere between Connecticut and Escambia County, Alabama.She was known to be transient, her last known address was in Virginia

Mary Elizabeth Reeves found

Clipping found in The Anniston Star published in Anniston, Alabama on 5/15/1987. Mary Elizabeth Reeves found

www.newspapers.com

 

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This groundbreaking development came as Alexander was extradited from North Carolina, where he faces charges in a separate 1992 cold case killing. He is now being held in Ventura County Jail without the possibility of bail, awaiting trial for three counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Kimberly Carol Fritz, 18, Velvet Ann Sanchez, 31, and Lorraine Ann Rodriguez.

https://www.edhat.com/news/dna-evidence-leads-to-arrest-of-suspected-serial-killer-in-three-ventura-county-murders-from-1977/

 

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Alleged Ventura County serial killer trial pushed to March 17

Warren Luther Alexander, 74, who is accused of murdering three women in Ventura County in 1977, is heading to trial in March.

www.ojaivalleynews.com

Trial moved to March 17th

 

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He goes to trial next Monday

 

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Docket Information Payment Page

03/14/2025

At the request of Jessica , from the District Attorney's Office, this case is calendared to 03/25/25 at 09:00 AM in Courtroom 12 for Miscellaneous Request To Add Criminal Protective Order .

 

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Docket Information Payment Page

03/14/2025

At the request of Jessica , from the District Attorney's Office, this case is calendared to 03/25/25 at 09:00 AM in Courtroom 12 for Miscellaneous Request To Add Criminal Protective Order .

03/25/2025 Case continued to 04/01/25 at 09:00 AM in Courtroom 12 for Motion Miscellaneous Motion .

03/25/2025The court date of 05/12/25 remains as previously ordered.

03/25/2025The last date for trial is 07/11/25 .

I'm unsure what any of that means

 

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03/25/2025 Case continued to 04/01/25 at 09:00 AM in Courtroom 12 for Motion Miscellaneous Motion .

03/25/2025The court date of 05/12/25 remains as previously ordered.

03/25/2025The last date for trial is 07/11/25 .

I'm unsure what any of that means

It appears the date for the jury trial was scrapped back in March. I don't think another date has been set.

03/05/2025Case continued to 05/12/25 at 01:30 PM in Courtroom 12 for Jury Trial Pre-trial Conference .

03/05/2025Time Waived to 05/12/25 plus 60 days.

03/05/2025Calendar line set for 03/17/25 at 08:30 AM in Courtroom 14 for JURY TRIAL is now vacated.