A 73-year-old long-haul trucker suspected of killing at least four women has been extradited to California on murder charges.
According to SFGate, Warren Luther Alexander was extradited this week from North Carolina to Ventura County, California, to face three counts of first-degree murder.
As CrimeOnline previously reported, Alexander was already in a North Carolina jail, awaiting trial for the 1992 strangulation murder of 29-year-old Nona Cobb, Ventura County District Attorney Erik Nasarenko said.
He’s now been charged for the deaths of Kimberly Fritz, 18; Velvet Sanchez, 31; and Lorraine Rodriguez, 21. Nasarenko added that investigators “believe there may be additional victims, both locally and in other states.”
“This is not in any way closed,” he said.
The district attorney stated that Alexander, originally from Diamondhead, Mississippi, lived in Ventura County during the 1950s and early 1960s, where he attended school, and later returned to the area in the 1970s. During that time, he worked as a cab driver and served in the Marines. He later became a long-haul truck driver.
Nasarenko said Alexander was identified through DNA evidence following his 2022 arrest for the 1992 murder. Detectives had long suspected that the three Ventura County murders were linked due to “patterns and similarities” in the victims’ deaths.
All three victims, who were sex workers frequenting the Plaza Marina Shopping Center and nearby motels, were strangled, the Journal-Courier reports.
North Carolina authorities agreed to the extradition to California because the Ventura County cases are much older than the one there, Nasarenko said.
“The day of reckoning in Ventura County has finally arrived,” he added.
