A convicted sex offender has been charged in a 1994 kidnapping case at a San Jose mall thanks to a recent match in a DNA database, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office.
The case stems back to the attack of a then 21-year-old manager of the President Tuxedo store in the Westfield Oakridge Mall when she opening up shop one morning.
That profile belonged to Thomas John Loguidice, who was in CODIS after being convicted in 2012 of the sexual abuse of a child in San Benito County. He is currently serving a 40-year sentence for that case in the California Department of Corrections. The jury also found that the crime involved a deadly weapon, the threat of great harm and a high degree of callousness. He faces life in prison in addition to his current sentence.
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