Convicted Killer Pleads Guilty to 1975 Murder
From Times Wire Reports
A former drifter linked by DNA on a discarded cigarette butt to a Mendocino County homicide that remained unsolved for three decades has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
Robert Vaughan, 49, also pleaded guilty Wednesday to using a firearm to kill Gerard Vincent Sullivan, 20, in Navarro in 1975.
Vaughan, who already is serving a 15-years-to-life sentence for killing a woman in Lake Tahoe in 1991, will get another seven years to life under a plea agreement.
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