Velvet Ann Sanchez

Velvet Ann Sanchez, a 31-year-old woman, was found dead on September 8, 1977, in a motel in Oxnard, California. She was one of three women who were strangled to death in Ventura County that year. The other victims were Kimberly Carol Fritz, 18, and Lorraine Ann Rodriguez, 21. All three women were sex workers who frequented local hotels. The cases went cold for decades until a breakthrough in 2023 when DNA evidence linked the murders to Warren Luther Alexander, a 73-year-old man from Diamondhead, ...

Suspected serial killer charged in 1977 cold case murders of 3 ...

DNA snags suspected serial killer in brutal 1977 slayings in Ventura ...