Man charged in three 1970s California murders after DNA match

Warren Luther Alexander, 73, was arrested for the decades-old killings of three women in southern California

A 73-year-old man has been charged in the strangulation deaths of three southern California women in 1977, after cold case detectives obtained a DNA match. Authorities said they believe there could be more victims.

Warren Luther Alexander of Diamondhead, Mississippi, made his first court appearance on Thursday but his arraignment on three counts of first-degree murder was postponed until later in August, the Ventura county district attorney's office said. Alexander remained jailed without bail.