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...knew. The man that we engaged with was always very pleasant, very personable. We never ever saw him lose his temper. Never. He always had a pleasant smile, always had a kind word," says Earl Ofari Hutchinson, who retired from State Fund last December and is president of the Los Angeles Urban Policy Roundtable. Hutchinson says Thomas was married with children. "I knew [Thomas] was quite a bit older than myself," he says. "I used to ask him what was the secret to his youthful appearance. He'd always laugh, with that smile of his, and essentially say, 'Just good...
...Los Angeles Police detectives say good was far from how Thomas lived. He allegedly preyed on elderly women who were living alone, according to police, beating and raping his victims before strangling them to death. Unbeknownst to his co-workers, Thomas, 72, had an extensive criminal history. He was arrested a number of times between 1955 and 1978. His previous criminal convictions consist of multiple burglaries, many of which involved the sexual assault of his victims. According to Jennifer Vargen, a spokeswoman for State Fund, where Thomas worked from 1989 up until his arrest, they were unaware of his criminal...
...latest charges through DNA samples taken from him in October 2008 as part of California's ongoing process to swab registered sex offenders. Thomas was required to give the samples because of a rape conviction in 1978 in Pasadena. He was also convicted of burglary and attempted rape in Los Angeles in 1957. On March 27, the California Department of Justice DNA Laboratory notified detectives that Thomas' DNA matched evidence for the rape and murder of Ethel Sokoloff, 68, in the mid-Wilshire area in 1972. On March 31, detectives were told that his DNA matched four other slayings...
...said they plan to file charges against Thomas for three Inglewood slayings 33 years ago, including that of Maybelle Hudson, and that they are combing through cold-case files dating back to the 1950s to see if he's linked to at least 25 more cases in Hollywood, West Los Angeles and the Wilshire area. (See pictures of crime in Middle America...
...based on the time he was in and out of custody, his location in regard to a lot of these crimes, the crimes we have proved against him already and the modus operandi on those crimes, [which] match the MOs on these crimes," says Detective Richard Bengtson of the Los Angeles Police Department's Robbery Homicide Division, Cold Case Homicide Section, which cracked the case. "If we are able to prove even half of these cases, it would make him [one of] L.A.'s most prolific serial killers, if not the United States...