VISTA, Calif.—A man arrested last year for the 1994 stabbing death of an Oceanside woman was sentenced this week to 12 years in state prison.
Jesus “Jesse” Velazquez Ayala, 59, pleaded guilty earlier this month to a voluntary manslaughter count stemming from 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….