"I lived about 20 minutes away from where Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped. My younger sister, who was probably about 8 at the time, refused to sleep in her room for weeks. Her room was in the front of the house, and she was terrified someone would sneak in through the front window and take her."
Tony Garcia was arrested Feb. 9 in Oxnard, about 10 miles from where Rachel Zendejas’ body was dumped. The 68-year-old Navy veteran was charged with murder not only in Zendejas’ slaying but also in the death of another woman, Lisa Gondek, the same year.
Rachel Zendejas was sexually assaulted and slain in the small, sleepy city in Ventura County in 1981, her naked body found across the street from the apartment she shared with Rodriguez. Every year on Jan. 18 — the anniversary of her death — Rodriguez made the solemn call to detectives, asking for .