Navy vet, 68, charged with cold case murders of two young women in 1981
A Navy veteran and karate instructor from Southern California was “hiding in plain sight” for more than 40 years before DNA evidence linked him to the murders of two women found strangled in 1981, authorities said.
Garcia, of Oxnard, appeared in court but his arraignment was continued to Feb. 23, the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office
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