A 73-year-old suspected serial killer from Mississippi extradited to Ventura County earlier this month in connection with three strangulation murders nearly a half century ago pled not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday, officials announced.  

In February 2023, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Cold Case Unit began re-examining the deaths of the three women – Kimberly Carol Fritz, Velvet Ann Sanchez and Lorraine Ann Rodriguez – each of whom was killed in 1977, the Ventura County DA’s Office said.  

While the exact circumstances surrounding the women’s deaths were not disclosed by the DA, an article published in 1978 in the Utah publication The Daily Herald stated that the three women were prostitutes who were strangled with their own underwear.  

Sanchez was 31 when she was found dead in an Oxnard motel on Sept. 9, 1977, the Daily Herald reported; the 18-year-old Fritz was found in a motel room on May 29 of that year and Rodriguez, then 22, was found dead near a highway in Oxnard on Dec. 27, but the Herald reported that investigators believed she was also killed at a motel and dumped there. 

After decades and decades of investigation, detectives were eventually able to identify the suspect as Warren Luther Alexander, a resident of Diamondhead, Mississippi. 

Alexander was extradited to Southern California on Aug. 6 from Surry County, North Carolina, where he was awaiting prosecution for a 1992 cold case murder.  

The 73-year-old has been charged by the Ventura County District Attorney’s office with three counts of first-degree murder for the 1977 strangulations.  

He is scheduled to appear in Ventura County Superior Court again on Aug. 30 and is being held in the Ventura County jail without bail.  

An assistant principal at a school in Texas was released from the hospital on Friday following a “classroom disruption” that left her seriously injured. 

Candra Rogers, the assistant principal at The Collins Intermediate School in Corsicana, TX, was airlifted on Thursday, Aug. 15, to a local hospital following what school district officials called a disruption in a classroom.

School officials said the incident happened in a classroom with less than ten students present. 

The student was detained, and the Student Code of Conduct will be applied and charges are pending, officials said.

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An assistant principal at a Corsicana intermediate school was airlifted to a hospital Thursday after being seriously injured in a “disruption” in a classroom, the district says. (Corsicana ISD/NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth)

Due to privacy laws, neither the student’s name nor specific details about the student in question will be released.

“Our prayers are with Mrs. Rogers and her family, but also the family of the student, those in the classroom at the time, and the entire Collins campus, our school district, and our community,” Superintendent Stephanie Howell said. “This has been an extremely upsetting and difficult situation as you might imagine, but we take the safety not only of our students, but also of our staff very seriously. Both remain a priority for Corsicana ISD.” 

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Candra Rogers, the assistant principal for Corsicana ISD’s Collins Intermediate School, was injured during what the district called a “classroom disruption” last Thursday. (Corsicana ISD)

Out of caution, the school was placed in a “hold” status following the incident, while first responders tended to Rogers’ care. 

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No other students or staff were ever in danger, school officials said.

No details about the incident have been disclosed. 

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A Corsicana ISD administrator was flown to the hospital after being injured at school during a “classroom disruption” on Thursday, August 15.  (FOX 4)

Raymond LInex, executive director for the school district, said that there were no new details about the case at this time.

“We have no additional information on the case as it is an open investigation. As for Mrs. Rogers, she is home, improving, and in good spirits. All she has asked for at this moment is continued prayers, including for the student’s family,” Linex said in a statement to Fox News Digital. 

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To help with medical expenses, the school district is hosting a number of fundraising events for Rogers’ family. 

The incident remains an ongoing investigation. 

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Several bystanders watched in surprise as a man stuffed merchandise, including expensive sunglasses, into a bag and fled the Northridge Fashion Center.

Cellphone video of the incident shows the robber walking around a Sunglass Hut store while deciding which items to put in what appeared to be a trash bag.

A security guard arrived at the shop and briefly confronted the suspect but was not able to detain him. 

The suspect is then seen running from the store with his bag of goods still in hand.

At one point, the suspect even stops and points at the security guard giving chase but still has time to turn and run out of the mall.

He was wearing a light-colored hat, dark shirt and white pants.