Man, 80, gets life for killing woman in 1972
An 80-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday for the 1972 slaying of a San Pedro woman.
Adolph Theodore Laudenberg, a former cabdriver, was convicted in November of first-degree murder in the death of Lois Petrie, who was found strangled in her San Pedro home the day after Christmas 1972. Los Angeles police detectives used DNA evidence from a coffee cup and napkin Laudenberg left behind in a Torrance doughnut shop to connect him to the decades-old killing.
He may face an additional charge in a 1975 San Francisco killing.
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