Twice he was tried, and twice, a jury failed to convict John Kevin Woodward for killing his roommate’s girlfriend, a computer engineer and athlete found strangled in her car in Mountain View, Calif., in the early 1990s.
Now, prosecutors have charged the gay tech CEO with murder for the third time in connection with a killing that happened 30 years ago after they say new developments in forensic science technology link him to the murder weapon.
Police arrested Woodward, Readytech’s president and chief executive officer, at JFK International Airport in New York Saturday after he arrived from Amsterdam, according to a Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Story continues
Police used Y-STR analysis of paternal male chromosomes to identify Woodward as the suspect. Houts’ boyfriend was excluded.
The Houts family said they are “hopeful that justice can finally be served,” according to a statement by the City of Mountain View.
Woodward could spend the rest of his life in prison if convicted.
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