Suspect in Killing of CSUN Administrator Denies Guilt
A Minnesota convict charged with the rape and murder of a Cal State Northridge administrator nine years ago denied any involvement in the widely publicized slaying during a hearing Thursday in Van Nuys Municipal Court.
Jonathan Karl Lundh, 43, was charged with robbing, raping and strangling Patty Lynne Cohen, assistant to the dean of the CSUN School of Arts, after she was abducted from the parking garage of a hotel in Burbank in 1982.
Although Lundh was sentenced to four years imprisonment for assaulting another woman in the same parking lot only minutes before Cohen disappeared, he was not charged with Cohen’s slaying at the time because of lack of evidence. Los Angeles police said they arrested him in Minnesota, where he had been in prison since March for grand theft, after finding undisclosed new evidence.
The judge granted a request by Lundh that he be allowed to act as his own attorney and set arraignment for Feb. 21.
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