LEONARD TERRANCE WOODS BUSTED FOR '92 SLAY

WOODS

HER mouth was covered in duct tape, her wrists and ankles bound with plastic zip ties and there was a deep gashes on the back of her head.
But although cops suspected Leonard Terrance Woods in 45-year-old Judith Goldman's 1992 murder, with little evidence, they were forced to let him go.
But in 2010 detectives reopened the case, conducting new interviews with witnesses and re-evalutating the physical evidence and they finally got a break.
Some of that evidence, found underneath Goodman's fingernails went in for DNA testing and they got themselves a match - the man they'd always suspected - Leonard Woods.
They believe he beat her with a decorative hook they found in her apartment KTLA  reports.
Riverside homicide detectives picked him up in his Moreno Valley, CA home and after interviewing Woods, they later booked him at the Robert Presley Detention Center. 
He is set to be arraigned one one count of murder and use of a deadly weapon Thursday in Riverside Superior Court. He could face 25 years to life in prison if he's convicted.

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ARMY VET JOHN RAY'S 2004 MURDER SOLVED

TIED UP AND KILLED

HE was a hero Army Veteran and youth mentor with big plans to go to law school.  
But then John Ray's life was tragically cut short, when he was viciously beaten, stabbed multiple times in the head and chest and then tied up and left to die in his South Atlanta home.
The 32-year-old's car and electronics were taken, but despite a large investigation at the time, the case quickly went cold.
Now thanks to a DNA match investigators believe they’ve found the man responsible – just before he may have managed to elude them a second time.
Torico Jackson has a long criminal history and was nearing the end of a prison sentence for a 2008 armed robbery.
Now he'll be held on murder charges.
Detective David Quinn told the Atlanta Journal Constitution: "That same individual escaped capture that night within two miles of the crime scene, less than eight hours after the time John Ray was last seen alive.
“It’s just a coincidence that we were working this case, and we find out where he is.”
On the night of the murder Torico had crashed the car, not far from Ray's home and investigator's were able to match the blood found on the dashboard with Torico. 
A recent swab of DNA from Jackson from prison to confirm that they had a match.
A trial date has yet to be set.

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