Hobbs, who killed Holly Ann Campiglia, dumping her body in a Dixon cornfield, was previously convicted in 2005 for a 1975 murder in Sacramento and sent to Valley State Prison in Chowchilla.
Previously convicted of a murder, a 77-year-old state prison inmate has pleaded to killing a 21-year-old woman in 1980, then leaving her body in rural Dixon.Official court records show Herman Lee Hobbs, whose July 10 preliminary hearing has been vacated, entered a no-contest plea to one count of second-degree murder on June 14 in Department 15 in Vallejo. Hobbs did not admit guilt but essentially stated he would offer no defense.
Convicted in 2005 for a 1975 killing in Sacramento, Hobbs, in previous court appearances had been shackled and clad in a striped jail jumpsuit and entered courtrooms seated in a wheelchair. In August 1980, officials said, two field workers on Sievers Road in rural Dixon discovered a body of a woman in a cornfield. She had been shot multiple times in the head and neck and was subsequently listed as Jane Doe for more than 10 years.
A warrant was obtained for DNA collection from Hobbs for direct comparison, officials noted, and it again came back as a match in the Campiglia murder.
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