A tech company executive was arrested in New York over the weekend in connection with the 30-year-old homicide cold case of Laurie Houts, according to prosecutors.
John Kevin Woodward, 58, the chief executive officer of the online training company ReadyTech, was taken into custody on July 9 at John F. Kennedy airport after arriving from Amsterdam, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office said in a July 11 press release.
Woodward has been charged with the 1992 strangulation murder of his roommate’s 25-year-old girlfriend, Houts, the DA’s office confirmed. A recent breakthrough in DNA enabled police to arrest the CEO. If convicted, Woodward faces life in prison….