A 76-year-old man who was allegedly linked by DNA proof to the cold-case killings of a 15-year-old woman and three younger girls in Los Angeles and Inglewood relationship again so far as 1980 made his first look Wednesday in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom on 4 homicide expenses.
Billy Ray Richardson — who appeared in court docket on a hospital gurney — was ordered to stay jailed with out bail whereas awaiting arraignment Dec. 8.
Richardson was extradited Tuesday from Texas, the place he was arrested July 13 after being charged with the killings.
“Investigative and forensic work over a long time related these murders by means of DNA and linked them to suspect Billy Ray Richardson,” in keeping with an announcement launched by the Los Angeles Police Division after his arrest.
The homicide expenses embrace the special-circumstance allegations of a number of murders, homicide in the course of the fee of a rape and homicide in the course of the fee of a housebreaking, in keeping with the Los Angeles County District Lawyer’s Workplace.
Every of the victims had been raped, in keeping with the District Lawyer’s Workplace.
Richardson is charged with the March 6, 1980, killings of 25-year-old Beverly Cruse and 22-year-old Debra Cruse, two sisters who have been every shot within the head thrice in an house within the 3200 block of Overland Avenue in Palms, together with the July 26, 1980, killing of the 15-year-old Kari Lenander, who was strangled within the 3700 block of Victoria Avenue, in keeping with the District Lawyer’s Workplace.
He’s additionally going through a homicide cost for the Dec. 31, 1995, slaying of Wilson, 28, whose throat had been slashed in North Park in Inglewood, in keeping with the District Lawyer’s Workplace.
Richardson’s identification because the suspect within the killings and his subsequent arrest was the results of a collaborative investigation involving the LAPD, Inglewood Police Division, FBI, Fort Price Police Division and investigators from the Los Angeles County District Lawyer’s Workplace, in keeping with the LAPD.
In an announcement asserting the costs in July, District Lawyer George Gascón mentioned he needed to commend “the tenacious and devoted work of those that helped clear up these crimes.”
“I can’t think about the ache that these households have endured. Their loss is immeasurable,” the county’s high prosecutor added. “We hope that collectively we will carry justice to the households who’ve endured a lot and have waited years for this second.”
