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Published on 12/21/1998 All articles from this issue

Police arrest suspect in 1994 LAH murder

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By Joanne Griffith Domingue / Town Crier Staff Writer

New evidence in an old case led to the arrest of a suspect involving a 1994 Los Altos Hills murder, authorities said.

Mountain View police arrested Felix A. Salcido, 26, a Mountain View resident, Dec. 21, on charges of homicide, said Santa Clara County Sheriff's spokesman Sgt. John Hirokawa.

Salcido was booked at Santa Clara County Jail and is being held without bail, Hirokawa said.

The victim, William Harold Justice, 36, a San Francisco resident, was found shot and stabbed to death Jan. 18, 1994, on a rural road in Los Altos Hills, Hirokawa said.

The murder happened in the car and then the body was "dumped" onto Moody Road, said Sheriff's Sgt. Earl Pennington.

"It was a pretty brutal murder," said Dan Carr, Santa Clara County Deputy District Attorney, who will be prosecuting the case.

Salcido has been the only suspect since 1994, Pennington said, but there was not enough evidence then to file any charges.

A few months ago, Pennington passed the case along to Ray Medved, an investigator with the district attorney's office, who is hired "to do nothing but review unsolved murder cases," Pennington said.

"You continue to pick and pick and pick until you have enough evidence," Carr said.

Working together, Pennington and Medved developed additional evidence, which led to the arrest.

It is unclear what took the two men to Los Altos Hills, Carr said.