2nd Arrest In 1975 Slaying Of Elderly Venice Woman
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities have arrested a second man in the decades-old slaying of an elderly woman in Los Angeles.
Eighty-year-old Alice Lewis was found dead in her Venice home in 1975 and the case went unsolved for years.
In 2009, cold-case detectives matched a sample from the state's DNA database to evidence taken from the crime scene, leading to the arrest of Dennis Vasquez, who was 17-years old at the time of the crime.
In a statement released Wednesday, the Los Angeles Police Department said detectives working the case developed a suspicion that Vasquez did not act alone.
On Dec. 12, the district attorney's office filed murder charges against Vasquez's friend Kevin Michael Shanahan, who was 15 years old in 1975.
He is currently in custody in Minnesota pending extradition.
(© Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.)
