VISTA, Calif.—A man arrested last year for the 1994 stabbing death of an Oceanside woman pleaded guilty this week to a voluntary manslaughter count.
Jesus “Jesse” Velazquez Ayala, 59, is slated to be sentenced later this month to 12 years in state prison for the killing of 54-year-old Dolores Rabaya.
The victim was found inside her Edgehill Lane home on Jan. 1, 1994 with more than two dozen stab wounds.
The previous evening, Ayala—at the time a 30-year-old Carlsbad resident—and Rabaya had been seen together celebrating New Year’s Eve at a South Coast Highway bar, and they left the establishment together, according to police….