Alleged Ventura County serial killer pleads not guilty in unsolved case » News Talk 1590 KVTA

Wednesday, 21 August 2024

(Photos courtesy of Ventura County District Attorney)

A 73-year-old Mississippi man is in the Ventura County Jail accused of murdering three women in Ventura County about 47 years ago.

Updated – A suspected Ventura County serial killer involved in an unsolved case was back in a Ventura courtroom Wednesday and pleaded not guilty to three counts of first-degree murder.

Warren Luther Alexander, 73, also denied two specific charges of multiple murder.

Prosecutors say DNA evidence links Alexander to the strangulation murders of Kimberly Carol Fritz, Velvet Ann Sanchez and Lorraine Ann Rodriguez in 1977.

Fritz, 18, was murdered in Port Hueneme on May 29, 1977, Sanchez, 31, was killed in Oxnard on September 8, 1977, and Rodriguez, 21, died on December 27, 1977.

The unsolved investigation into the deaths began in 2023 and involved the Ventura County District Attorney's Office, Ventura County Sheriff's Office, Oxnard Police Department and Port Hueneme Police Department.

It led to Alexander, who was found in North Carolina, where he is being prosecuted for an unsolved murder committed in that jurisdiction.

He was extradited from North Carolina to Ventura County earlier this month.

Alexander remains in the Ventura County Jail and is being held without bail.