Prosecutors say a retired truck driver from Texas has been charged with killing a woman whose body was found along a freeway onramp in a Southern California desert nearly 30 years ago.
Cold-case investigators used advances in DNA technology to link Douglas Thomas to the 1993 killing of Sherri Herrera, the Riverside County District Attorney's Office said in a statement.– A retired truck driver from Texas has been charged with killing a woman whose body was found along a freeway onramp in a Southern California desert nearly 30 years ago, prosecutors said.
Cold-case investigators used advances in DNA technology to link Douglas Thomas to the 1993 killing of Sherri Herrera, theThomas is in custody in Titus County, Texas, awaiting trial for separate slaying in that state in 1992. The 67-year-old was charged with Herrera's murder on Friday in Riverside, California, the DA's statement said. The murder count was filed with a special circumstance allegation that the killing occurred during the commission of a rape, prosecutors said.When the Texas case concludes, he will be extradited to California to be tried in Herrera's killing.
Herrera, a 30-year-old mother of four from Tulare, California, was found dead on March 30, 1993 on an eastbound onramp to Interstate 10 near Desert Center in Riverside County.Thomas traveled extensively throughout the U.S. during a 40-year career as a trucker, according to officials. Copyright 2022 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.
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