Top left inset: Velvet Ann Sanchez. Bottom left inset: Kimberly Carol Fritz. Top right inset: Lorraine Ann Rodriguez. Bottom right inset: Warren Luther Alexander. Background: Authorities escort Alexander off a plane in California (Ventura County District Attorney’s Office).
A former Mississippi trucker already facing murder charges in the strangling of a North Carolina woman 30 years ago is now facing murder charges in the strangulation slayings of three women in California in 1977.
The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office filed three counts of first-degree murder against Warren Luther Alexander, 72, related to the murders of Kimberly Carol Fritz, 18, Velvet Ann Sanchez, 31, and Lorraine Ann Rodriguez, 21, prosecutors announced in a news release.
“These murders may have occurred 47 years ago, but the investigators with the Ventura County DA’s office, the investigators with the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department Cold Case Unit, and officers and detectives with Port Hueneme and Oxnard never gave up,” Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko said in a news conference announcing the charges. “They never gave up seeking justice for these three victims, their loved ones and their families. Just because a case has gone cold does not mean it should ever be forgotten.”
