After being charged with murder, Eddie Lee Anderson has died after testing positive for the coronavirus.
Eddie Lee Anderson, a former U.S. Marine, died at 5 a.m. Friday after first being booked into the Orange County Sheriff's Department jail on suspicion of homicide on July 1, 2019. He was previously housed at Theo Lacy Facility in Orange.
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DNA Leads To Arrest Of Marine Veteran In 1976 Slaying Of Woman (Leslie Harris) Who Disappeared In Costa Mesa. Ex-Marine charged 43 years after rape, slaying.
Forty-three years after the rape and killing of a 30-year-old woman in Orange County, a former Marine has been charged in her death.
Eddie Lee Anderson, 66, is charged with one count of murder with a special allegation of rape. The criminal complaint was filed in Orange County Superior Court on May 24, 2019 the day Anderson was arrested at his home in River Ridge, La.
Anderson is in the custody of the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana and was scheduled for an extradition hearing.
Anderson is accused in the death of Leslie Penrod Harris, who disappeared the night of May 17, 1976, and was found strangled hours later.
Harris argued with her husband before leaving a Costa Mesa restaurant alone around 8:30 p.m., saying she would take a taxi back to the hotel where they were staying, The Times reported at the time. But she never made it there. She was found dead about 4:30 the next morning near Marine Corps Air Station El Toro. Military police found Harris' nude body lying on a roadway just outside the air base's perimeter.
The Marine base has since been decommissioned, and Irvine's Great Park was built on part of it.
The Times reported that Harris and her husband, John, were staying at the Airporter Inn in Irvine. They had recently moved to the area, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department. It's unclear where they moved from.
At the time, investigators believed the killer was connected to the air base because Harris' body was discovered in an area unknown to the public. Authorities had no suspects, however, and the case went cold.
Investigators tried to revive the case in 1997 and 2016 after advancements in DNA analysis, but no matches to the evidence collected were found, authorities said. In 2018, the Orange County Homicide Task Force began using genealogy tools to try to identify a suspect in Harris' killing.
Further investigation led authorities to determine that Anderson had been enlisted in the Marines and lived at the El Toro base in the early 1970s. At the time Harris was killed, he lived less than a mile from the restaurant she visited the night of her death, officials said.
Orange County sheriff's officials traveled to Louisiana to interview him. He was arrested after volunteering to provide a DNA sample.
A motive is not clear.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/dna-leads-to-arrest-of-marine-veteran-in-1976-slaying-of-woman-leslie-harris-who-disappeared-in-costa-mesa/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/genetic-genealogy-links-marine-young-womans-murder-1976/story?id=63396410
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/68-year-old-o-c-inmate-accused-in-1976-killing-dies-after-testing-positive-for-coronavirus/
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Eddie Lee Anderson, a former U.S. Marine, died at 5 a.m. Friday after first being booked into the Orange County Sheriff's Department jail on suspicion of homicide on July 1, 2019. He was previously housed at Theo Lacy Facility in Orange.
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DNA Leads To Arrest Of Marine Veteran In 1976 Slaying Of Woman (Leslie Harris) Who Disappeared In Costa Mesa. Ex-Marine charged 43 years after rape, slaying.
Forty-three years after the rape and killing of a 30-year-old woman in Orange County, a former Marine has been charged in her death.
Eddie Lee Anderson, 66, is charged with one count of murder with a special allegation of rape. The criminal complaint was filed in Orange County Superior Court on May 24, 2019 the day Anderson was arrested at his home in River Ridge, La.
Anderson is in the custody of the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana and was scheduled for an extradition hearing.
Anderson is accused in the death of Leslie Penrod Harris, who disappeared the night of May 17, 1976, and was found strangled hours later.
Harris argued with her husband before leaving a Costa Mesa restaurant alone around 8:30 p.m., saying she would take a taxi back to the hotel where they were staying, The Times reported at the time. But she never made it there. She was found dead about 4:30 the next morning near Marine Corps Air Station El Toro. Military police found Harris' nude body lying on a roadway just outside the air base's perimeter.
The Marine base has since been decommissioned, and Irvine's Great Park was built on part of it.
The Times reported that Harris and her husband, John, were staying at the Airporter Inn in Irvine. They had recently moved to the area, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department. It's unclear where they moved from.
At the time, investigators believed the killer was connected to the air base because Harris' body was discovered in an area unknown to the public. Authorities had no suspects, however, and the case went cold.
Investigators tried to revive the case in 1997 and 2016 after advancements in DNA analysis, but no matches to the evidence collected were found, authorities said. In 2018, the Orange County Homicide Task Force began using genealogy tools to try to identify a suspect in Harris' killing.
Further investigation led authorities to determine that Anderson had been enlisted in the Marines and lived at the El Toro base in the early 1970s. At the time Harris was killed, he lived less than a mile from the restaurant she visited the night of her death, officials said.
Orange County sheriff's officials traveled to Louisiana to interview him. He was arrested after volunteering to provide a DNA sample.
A motive is not clear.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/dna-leads-to-arrest-of-marine-veteran-in-1976-slaying-of-woman-leslie-harris-who-disappeared-in-costa-mesa/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/genetic-genealogy-links-marine-young-womans-murder-1976/story?id=63396410
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/68-year-old-o-c-inmate-accused-in-1976-killing-dies-after-testing-positive-for-coronavirus/
https://www.facebook.com/WWLTV/posts/66-year-old-eddie-lee-anderson-was-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder-last-week-at-/10156614473359926/
After being charged with murder, Eddie Lee Anderson has died after testing positive for the coronavirus.
Eddie Lee Anderson, a former U.S. Marine, died at 5 a.m. Friday after first being booked into the Orange County Sheriff's Department jail on suspicion of homicide on July 1, 2019. He was previously housed at Theo Lacy Facility in Orange.
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DNA Leads To Arrest Of Marine Veteran In 1976 Slaying Of Woman (Leslie Harris) Who Disappeared In Costa Mesa. Ex-Marine charged 43 years after rape, slaying.
Forty-three years after the rape and killing of a 30-year-old woman in Orange County, a former Marine has been charged in her death.
Eddie Lee Anderson, 66, is charged with one count of murder with a special allegation of rape. The criminal complaint was filed in Orange County Superior Court on May 24, 2019 the day Anderson was arrested at his home in River Ridge, La.
Anderson is in the custody of the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana and was scheduled for an extradition hearing.
Anderson is accused in the death of Leslie Penrod Harris, who disappeared the night of May 17, 1976, and was found strangled hours later.
Harris argued with her husband before leaving a Costa Mesa restaurant alone around 8:30 p.m., saying she would take a taxi back to the hotel where they were staying, The Times reported at the time. But she never made it there. She was found dead about 4:30 the next morning near Marine Corps Air Station El Toro. Military police found Harris' nude body lying on a roadway just outside the air base's perimeter.
The Marine base has since been decommissioned, and Irvine's Great Park was built on part of it.
The Times reported that Harris and her husband, John, were staying at the Airporter Inn in Irvine. They had recently moved to the area, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department. It's unclear where they moved from.
At the time, investigators believed the killer was connected to the air base because Harris' body was discovered in an area unknown to the public. Authorities had no suspects, however, and the case went cold.
Investigators tried to revive the case in 1997 and 2016 after advancements in DNA analysis, but no matches to the evidence collected were found, authorities said. In 2018, the Orange County Homicide Task Force began using genealogy tools to try to identify a suspect in Harris' killing.
Further investigation led authorities to determine that Anderson had been enlisted in the Marines and lived at the El Toro base in the early 1970s. At the time Harris was killed, he lived less than a mile from the restaurant she visited the night of her death, officials said.
Orange County sheriff's officials traveled to Louisiana to interview him. He was arrested after volunteering to provide a DNA sample.
A motive is not clear.
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https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/dna-leads-to-arrest-of-marine-veteran-in-1976-slaying-of-woman-leslie-harris-who-disappeared-in-costa-mesa/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/genetic-genealogy-links-marine-young-womans-murder-1976/story?id=63396410
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/68-year-old-o-c-inmate-accused-in-1976-killing-dies-after-testing-positive-for-coronavirus/
https://www.facebook.com/WWLTV/posts/66-year-old-eddie-lee-anderson-was-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder-last-week-at-/10156614473359926/
Eddie Lee Anderson, a former U.S. Marine, died at 5 a.m. Friday after first being booked into the Orange County Sheriff's Department jail on suspicion of homicide on July 1, 2019. He was previously housed at Theo Lacy Facility in Orange.
************************************
DNA Leads To Arrest Of Marine Veteran In 1976 Slaying Of Woman (Leslie Harris) Who Disappeared In Costa Mesa. Ex-Marine charged 43 years after rape, slaying.
Forty-three years after the rape and killing of a 30-year-old woman in Orange County, a former Marine has been charged in her death.
Eddie Lee Anderson, 66, is charged with one count of murder with a special allegation of rape. The criminal complaint was filed in Orange County Superior Court on May 24, 2019 the day Anderson was arrested at his home in River Ridge, La.
Anderson is in the custody of the Plaquemines Parish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana and was scheduled for an extradition hearing.
Anderson is accused in the death of Leslie Penrod Harris, who disappeared the night of May 17, 1976, and was found strangled hours later.
Harris argued with her husband before leaving a Costa Mesa restaurant alone around 8:30 p.m., saying she would take a taxi back to the hotel where they were staying, The Times reported at the time. But she never made it there. She was found dead about 4:30 the next morning near Marine Corps Air Station El Toro. Military police found Harris' nude body lying on a roadway just outside the air base's perimeter.
The Marine base has since been decommissioned, and Irvine's Great Park was built on part of it.
The Times reported that Harris and her husband, John, were staying at the Airporter Inn in Irvine. They had recently moved to the area, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Department. It's unclear where they moved from.
At the time, investigators believed the killer was connected to the air base because Harris' body was discovered in an area unknown to the public. Authorities had no suspects, however, and the case went cold.
Investigators tried to revive the case in 1997 and 2016 after advancements in DNA analysis, but no matches to the evidence collected were found, authorities said. In 2018, the Orange County Homicide Task Force began using genealogy tools to try to identify a suspect in Harris' killing.
Further investigation led authorities to determine that Anderson had been enlisted in the Marines and lived at the El Toro base in the early 1970s. At the time Harris was killed, he lived less than a mile from the restaurant she visited the night of her death, officials said.
Orange County sheriff's officials traveled to Louisiana to interview him. He was arrested after volunteering to provide a DNA sample.
A motive is not clear.
************************************************
https://www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/news/dna-leads-to-arrest-of-marine-veteran-in-1976-slaying-of-woman-leslie-harris-who-disappeared-in-costa-mesa/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/genetic-genealogy-links-marine-young-womans-murder-1976/story?id=63396410
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/68-year-old-o-c-inmate-accused-in-1976-killing-dies-after-testing-positive-for-coronavirus/
https://www.facebook.com/WWLTV/posts/66-year-old-eddie-lee-anderson-was-arrested-on-suspicion-of-murder-last-week-at-/10156614473359926/
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