{"id":69296,"date":"2023-06-11T00:25:27","date_gmt":"2023-06-11T04:25:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/florida-man-arrested-nearly-four-decades-following-cold-case-murder-in-california-69296"},"modified":"2023-06-11T00:25:27","modified_gmt":"2023-06-11T04:25:27","slug":"florida-man-arrested-nearly-four-decades-following-cold-case-murder-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/florida-man-arrested-nearly-four-decades-following-cold-case-murder-in-california-69296","title":{"rendered":"Florida man arrested nearly four decades following cold case murder in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/west\/california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California authorities<\/a> captured a Florida fugitive who managed to avoid capture for nearly 40 years in connection with the murder of a 33-year-old woman in 1984.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in San Diego, California arrested Donald Michael Santini on Wednesday, June 7 for the 1984 killing of Cynthia Ruth, a 33-year-old woman whose body was found in a drainage ditch after she\u2019d been strangled in Hillsborough County, Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The arrest warrant said a medical examiner determined she had been strangled and Santini&#8217;s fingerprints were found on her body, the Tampa Bay Times reported.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, Wood was the last person seen leaving the 33-year-old&#8217;s residence in 1984. On June 9, 1984, police discovered Ruth&#8217;s corpse.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The suspect has not been seen since this incident and may be in the state of Texas using an unknown identity,&#8221; the sheriff\u2019s office notes in an &#8220;Unsolved Homicides&#8221; page<a rel=\"noopener\">, noting that Santini was a suspect in the <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/cold-case\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">39-year-old cold case<\/a><a rel=\"noopener\">.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/new-jersey-attorney-linked-string-boston-rapes-apparently-proposed-fiancee-weeks-before-arrest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><u>NEW JERSEY ATTORNEY LINKED TO STRING OF BOSTON RAPES APPARENTLY PROPOSED TO FIANCEE WEEKS BEFORE ARREST<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before his arrest, Santini lived in the Golden State as a fugitive under an assumed name.<\/p>\n<p>An arrest warrant obtained by local outlet WFLA says that Santini went by the aliases of Charles Michael Stevens, Donald Chapman, and John Trimble over his 39-years of hiding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/austin-serial-killer-child-rapist-arrested-turning-himself-could-linked-more-murders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AUSTIN \u2018SERIAL KILLER,\u2019 CHILD RAPIST ARRESTED AFTER TURNING HIMSELF IN; HE COULD BE LINKED TO MORE MURDERS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the warrant obtained by Tampa-based WFTS, Santini\u2019s fingerprints were found on Wood\u2019s body.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office said that the &#8220;technology of today,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/crime\/police-and-law-enforcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helped detectives<\/a> open the cold case back up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This arrest allows us to reexamine evidence collected in 1984 using the technology of today, as the case is now considered open once again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Santini appeared in San Diego County Court on Friday, June 9 and awaits <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/southeast\/florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">extradition to Florida<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/florida-man-arrested-four-decades-following-cold-case-california\">Source &#8211; https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/florida-man-arrested-four-decades-following-cold-case-california <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California authorities captured a Florida fugitive who managed to avoid capture for nearly 40 years in connection with the murder of a 33-year-old woman in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_2902945987_2902945987":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[16563],"tags":[],"stock_ticker":[],"class_list":["post-69296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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