By Chris Herring
An inmate sentenced to death in California was hit Thursday by a pair of murder charges in New York's murder, which took place in the 1970s.
Manhattan prosecutors say the suspect serial killer Rodney Alcala, killing a flight attendant Cornelia Crilley and heiress Ellen suspended in 1971 and 1977, respectively. Both women were 23 at the time of his death.
In a press conference announced Thursday the indictment, the Manhattan district attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said the murders "of the police and our boring office that the case turned cold, and over the years wore on. "
He said investigators are doing more than 100 interviews, and took the evidence in other cases encountered connect Alcala allegedly linked to him in the unsolved cases. But Vance refused to go into details of what led to the indictment before a grand jury.
An official of law enforcement could the case said detectives familiar with the evidence that it leads connect suspect Alcala.
In particular, detectives on the case of a secret collection of photographs of young women unknowns used, kept in the 1970s when Alcala, the official said. Police released photos last year following a conviction Alcala west in hopes of generating leads, and a number of women came forward to describe the photographer.
The job description - a man who has photos of young women in an effort, they are offered in the lottery - was almost identical to California prosecutors used evidence at trial against Alcala.
The 67-year Alcala, who lived in New York's death row. He was convicted last year of strangling four women and killing a girl of 12 years in the 1970s.
Vance said his office was in contact with prosecutors in California have Alcala in New York to an indictment. It was not immediately clear whether Alcala had a lawyer for the new charges.
The prosecutor defended the decision to prosecute Alcala, despite his death sentence. "You do not go out" with murder, he said, adding that the financial statements and the procedure can only significant budgetary concerns have been critical. "Every victim deserves to know a murder that prosecutors and police never forget that case."
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