(KRON) — A person serving a prolonged jail sentence for youngster sexual abuse was discovered responsible this week of a San Jose kidnapping that occurred over 30 years in the past, the Santa Clara County District Lawyer’s workplace introduced Thursday.
Thomas Loguidice, 67, was beforehand convicted in 2012 for the continual sexual abuse of a kid underneath 13 in San Benito County. He’s serving a 40-year sentence in that case. Loguidice’s DNA had been entered into the Mixed DNA Index System (CODIS), the DA’s workplace stated.
In 2022, the district legal professional’s Chilly Case Unit found that Loguidice’s profile that was entered into CODIS matched the DNA that was collected from a 1994 crime scene in San Jose.
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The jury realized that on January 13, 1994, Loguidice entered the President Tuxedo retailer at Oakridge Mall shortly earlier than that day’s opening at 10 a.m. He discovered the performing supervisor of the shop, a 21-year-old lady, and compelled her right into a again room at knifepoint. After they have been each within the rear storage space, he sure the sufferer’s wrists and tied her to a pipe.
Loguidice then returned to the shop’s showroom and grabbed money from the register. Prosecutors alleged that after taking the cash, he went again to the sufferer within the again storage room and sexually assaulted her.
The case went chilly after the San Jose Police Division exhausted all of their leads, the DA’s workplace stated.
On Wednesday, Loguidice was discovered responsible of aggravated kidnapping for the needs of theft. The jury additionally discovered true that he used a knife in the course of the crime. Loguidice was not charged with sexual assault because the statute of limitations expired in 2000, in keeping with prosecutors.
“We do not forget,” District Lawyer Jeff Rosen stated in an announcement. “The passage of time does not minimize this defendant’s violent and horrific acts, and he deserves to be held accountable. I am grateful for the terrific work of our Crime Lab, investigators, and prosecutors to bring this perpetrator to justice.”
Loguidice is about to obtain sentencing on Jan. 15, 2025.
