Murderer Charged in 4 Girls’ Killings
A suspected serial killer has been charged with murdering four teenage girls in the mid-1970s after officials said DNA evidence linked him to two of the deaths.
Ray Dell Sims, 66, serving a life sentence at San Quentin State Prison for murdering another Fresno girl, pleaded not guilty in Fresno Superior Court to four counts of murder and two of rape.
Deputies had long suspected Sims in the other killings, but it wasn’t until 1996 that they were able to get a sample of his blood to compare with DNA left at the crime scene, including a hair found under one of the girls’ rings.
Test results received in 1997 and last month matched him to the killings of Elizabeth Ortega and Eva Lucio, both 15.
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