Sherri Herrera.Photo: Riverside County District Attorney’s Office
A retired truck driver is facing a murder charge in connection with the 1993 slaying of a woman whose body was dumped along a California desert highway.
Douglas Thomas, 67, is accused in the killing of 30-year-old Sherri Herrera, the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office said in a statement released this week.
Herrera was allegedly killed “during the commission of a rape,” prosecutors said.
The body of Herrera, a mother of four from Tulare, Calif., was discovered March 30, 1993, on the eastbound Hayfield Road on-ramp to 1-10 in Desert Center, between Palm Springs and the Arizona state line. She was last seen alive a few days earlier.
“I don’t know if I really believed it, because it’s like, man, this has been so long,” Herrera’s son Adrian said, according toABC30. “I remember coming home from school, and my stepmom told us the news what had happened. Me and my sister were there. Obviously, we started bawling our eyes out.”
Douglas Thomas.Riverside County District Attorney’s Office
In May, Thomas was arrested for the cold case murder of a woman found in Titus County, Texas, in 1992.
According to prosecutors, potential DNA from the killer discovered at Herrera’s crime scene matched DNA found at the Titus County murder scene, ABC30 reported.
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Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the Riverside County Regional Cold Case Homicide Team at 951-955-2777.
source: people.com
