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Police say man, 72, tied to SoCal serial killings
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles police believe a 72-year-old man charged with two cold-case killings is tied to two waves of Southern California serial killings involving as many as 25 victims.
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LAPD Detective Richard Bengston says DNA matching former insurance adjuster John Floyd Thomas Jr. was found at five crime scenes spanning the killing-and-rape rampages in west Los Angeles in the 1970s and Claremont in the 1980s.
Police plan to reveal details of the case at a press conference Thursday.
Thomas was charged April 2 with murdering a 68-year-old woman in 1972 and a 67-year-old woman in 1976. He's being held in a county jail and couldn't immediately be reached for comment. Officers reached by phone Thursday morning had no information on an attorney for Floyd.
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