SANTA ANA, Calif., Feb. 1 (UPI) -- The killing of a Yorba Linda, Calif., woman and her adult son shares some similarities with the serial slayings of four homeless men, detectives say.
Itzcoatl Ocampo, 23, the Marine veteran charged with killing the homeless men, lived about a mile from the house where Raquel Estrada, 53, and Juan Herrera, 34, were stabbed, the Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday. Estrada's younger son, Eder Giovanni Herrera, 24, has been charged with killing his mother and brother but Sgt. Jim Griffin of the Brea Police Department said the double homicide has "some similarities" to the later killings.
Estrada and Herrera were killed in late October, about two months before John McGillivray, a homeless man, was stabbed as he slept outside a Placentia, Calif., shopping center.
Ocampo was arrested Jan. 13 as he allegedly tried to run away after the fourth killing. Griffin said detectives were trying to determine whether Ocampo could have been responsible for other crimes.
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