Tech CEO arrested in 1992 Mountain View cold case slaying after DNA breakthrough
On Sept. 5, 1992, computer engineer Laurie Houts, 25, was found fatally strangled in her car near a California garbage dump. Her boyfriend’s roommate was arrested in connection with the case, but two trials—and two hung juries—later, a judge dismissed the case. The roommate moved to the Netherlands soon afterward.
Houts’ body was discovered by a passerby less than a mile from her office at Adobe Systems in Mountain View more than 30 years ago, according to theA rope was around her neck, and there were footprints on the inside of her windshield, which were called “a sign of her struggle with Woodward” by the district attorney’s office.
Woodward, who had no alibi for the night Houts was killed, was arrested that same year. Prosecutors alleged that Woodward had developed an “unrequited” romantic interest in Houts’ boyfriend. The theory was criticized as homophobic at Woodward’s first trial by his defense lawyer in 1995, thereported Monday, and the jury deadlocked on his innocence, voting 8-4 for acquittal.
Woodward was arrested after federal agents alerted local authorities to his imminent arrival from Amsterdam. Dutch authorities, the district attorney said, had also obtained a warrant and had seized a number of electronic devices from his home and business.
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