Leola Shreves and Armando Cuadras.
The real tragedy here is that several of this woman’s immediate descendants probably already look more like her killer than herself.
It’s not exactly getting any whiter out there in Beanerfornia.
Northern California detectives have announced an arrest after re-testing DNA in the cold case of a 94-year-old woman they say was “brutally murdered.”
Armando Cuadras, 29, who was arrested Wednesday, is the second person Yuba City police have charged in the 2013 murder of Leola Shreves — a woman who had 22 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great-grandchildren.
Shreves’ 20-year-old next-door-neighbor, Michael Alexander, was arrested a short time after the murder when police said he told detectives he had “two sides” and that “Angry Mike” committed the crime, the Sacramento Bee reported Thursday, citing a local newspaper.
Prosecutors dropped the case against him, however, after saying in court papers that an analysis of DNA evidence found at the scene excluded him as a suspect.
Alexander spent three years in jail awaiting trial. He settled a lawsuit for wrongful arrest last year for $50,000, the Marysville Appeal-Democrat reported.
In a news release announcing Cuadras’s arrest, Yuba City police said blood found at the crime scene matched his DNA.
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Cuadras was jailed without bail.