Death Row prisoner James Odle, who killed Amber Swartz-Garcia s father, dead at 71
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James Odle, sentenced to death for murdering a Pinole woman and a police officer who was trying to arrest him in 1980, has died in a hospital, state prison officials said. He was 71.
Odle of San Pablo was convicted of stabbing 19-year-old Rena Aguilar at her home on April 30, 1980, and shooting Officer Floyd “Bernie” Swartz four days later as police closed in on him. Odle was trying to stop Aguilar from contacting police after her roommate, Odle’s former girlfriend, had told her he had stolen a van.
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