Remembering Our Dead

Carla Salazar

Carla was stabbed multiple times in her home. In 2014 Douglas Gutridge was charged with her murder after DNA evidence came to light.

A 63-year-old retired man in California has been charged with the 1989 stabbing death of a transgender woman at her home.

Police say Douglas Gutridge, 37 at the time, killed 35-year-old Carla Salazar in Santa Ana.

He spoke to detectives in the aftermath of the crime — and while DNA evidence linked him to the scene nearly six years ago, there wasn't enough evidence to file charges until a new cold case team stepped in.

The motive for the killing is not clear, but investigators believe the pair had a brief, consensual relationship.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2880795/Retiree-63-charged-1989-murder-transgender-woman-decades-gave-police-information-stabbing-not-arrested-wasn-t-evidence.html

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Report added: 24 Feb 2019. Last updated: 13 Jan 2021

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