L.A. prosecutors use genealogy search to make arrest in 1980s killings of two women

Los Angeles County prosecutors have filed two counts of murder against a man linked to a pair of decades-old cold cases by connecting the suspect through a genealogy match, a first for the office, Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey said Friday.

“Thanks to advances in technology and forensics, we are now able to virtually reach back in time and find those responsible for these vicious crimes,” Lacey said.Vaultz was arrested Thursday after a traffic stop in Los Angeles, said Burbank Det. Aaron Kay, the lead investigator on Duggan’s killing. Vaultz does not currently have an attorney, prosecutors said.

In addition to the Golden State Killer case, Los Angeles investigators finally arrested the so-called Grim Sleeper after matching DNA from the initial crime scenes toA genealogy match also led Washington, D.C., police towho was accused of multiple assaults around the Beltway in the 1990s. Prosecutors have contacted other policing agencies to “determine if the defendant is responsible for other unsolved murders in California,” the district attorney’s office said in a statement.Court records show Vaultz had been accused of domestic violence crimes several times in the past few decades. In 1996, he was granted probation in a plea deal with the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office after he was charged with domestic abuse and assault.

Vaultz continued to harass the woman long after their relationship ended, according to her mother. She eventually moved away from Bakersfield and escaped Vaultz, but died of a heart attack in 2011. She was 43. Duggan’s body was found in the trunk of her car in a parking lot near Glenoaks Boulevard and Cohasset Street in 1986, according to a Times article about a reward offered by the Burbank City Council seeking information about her death. Her body had been covered by newspapers in the trunk of her 1980 Ford Mustang, according to the article, which said Duggan lived in Reseda with her father at the time of the killing.

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