NEW YORK — The killings frustrated authorities for decades: A flight attendant found raped and strangled with a pair of stockings in her Manhattan apartment in 1971. A Hollywood nightspot owner’s daughter whose remains were found in the woods in 1978 after she disappeared in Manhattan the year before.
Now a convicted California serial killer who had long been suspected has been indicted in the New York cases, prosecutors said Thursday.
Though he remains on California’s death row for now, Rodney Alcala is expected to be brought to New York to face murder charges in the deaths of Cornelia Crilley and Ellen Hover. Alcala, 67, was convicted last year of strangling four women and a 12-year-old girl in California in the 1970s, in killings prosecutors said were laced with torture.
