A Bay Area CEO has been charged with murder in a cold case from 30 years ago, the Santa Clara County district attorney's office announced on Monday.
Officials say John Kevin Woodward, 58, is charged with the strangulation murder of his roommate's girlfriend, Laurie Houts, in Mountain View in 1992.On September 5, 1992, Houts, 25, a computer engineer, was found murdered in her vehicle near a garbage dump about a mile from her work, according to Rob Baker, deputy district attorney. The incident occurred in the 1300 block of Crittendane Lane in Mountain View.
Woodward's fingerprints were found outside of Hout's car, but investigators at the time were unable to show he was inside the vehicle. He was tried twice for the murder in the 1990s, but the case a judge dismissed the case for insufficient evidence after a jury could not reach a verdict following the second trial, the district attorney's office said.
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