Cold Case Serial Killer Arrested

April 29, 2009

What:
News Conference  
        
When:
Thursday, April 30, 2009
1:00 p.m.  

Where:
Metropolitan Dispatch Center (3rd Floor)
100 North Los Angeles Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Who:
LAPD Chief of Police William Bratton
Councilmember Jack Weiss, District 5 (Tentative)
Councilmember Bill Rosendahl, District 11
Councilmember Herb Wesson, District 10 (Tentative)
LAPD Deputy Chief Charlie Beck
LAPD Captain Dennis Cremins
LAPD Robbery Homicide Cold Case Detectives
(Richard Bengstan, Rick Jackson)
SID Criminalists
LAPD Southwest Registration Enforcement and Compliance Team Officers
Inglewood Captain Eve Irvine
Inglewood Homicide Detectives and Grandson of one victim    
                         
Why:
To announce the identity and arrest of a suspect who has been linked by DNA evidence to two LAPD cold case murders and three others in Inglewood and the County of Los Angeles.  Detectives believe that this suspect could be linked to as many as 25 other unsolved murder cases and numerous sexual assault cases.