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Sep 20, 2016 · It was one of the photographs of women found with the personal belongings of death row inmate Rodney Alcala, 73, that helped link him to the 1977 killing of Christine Ruth Thornton,...
Aug 7, 2022 · Christine Thornton, who disappeared in 1977, was identified by one of her relatives in 2013 among a the batch of photographs taken by Alcala. This photograph of Thornton was taken just a short distance from where her remains were discovered in 1982.
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Jan 7, 2021 · One of the photographs helped police link Alcala to the killing of a 28-year-old pregnant woman, Christine Ruth Thornton, CBS reported. Police believe Alcala killed Thornton in the summer...
4 days ago · But before he would indict Alcala for Christine Thornton's murder, Prosecutor Errasmouspe wanted to interview him. In September 2016, he flew with the two detectives to California. Frail, and in ill health, Rodney Alcala had been moved from San Quentin to the medical unit of Corcoran Prison outside of Fresno.
Sep 21, 2016 · On Tuesday, prosecutors in Sweetwater County, Wyo., charged Alcala with the 1977 killing of Christine Ruth Thornton after discovering a photo that Alcala had snapped of her before her death.
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3 days ago · At the same time Rodney Alcala was on the road, a 29-year-old woman from Texas, Christine Ruth Thornton, was traveling through the West with her boyfriend. Her sister, Kathy, was 11 years...
Christine Thornton. In September 2016, Alcala was charged with the murder of 28-year-old Christine Ruth Thornton. Thornton and her lover moved away from her family to live in San Antonio, Texas. After they split up in Biloxi, Mississippi, in June 1977, she was last seen hitchhiking and was never heard from again. In 2013, an image made public ...
