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County, records show.

Her parents, who asked

that their names not be used

out of fear of retaliation from

Vaultz, said he victimized

their daughter during a

roughly yearlong relation-

ship. She was hospitalized

with injuries he allegedly

caused on at least one occa-

sion, they said.

“We were so afraid for her

during that time,” her

mother said. “She was abso-

lutely petrified.”

The woman was “vulner-

able” around the time she

met Vaultz in the early 2000s,

according to the mother,

who said she had just final-

ized a divorce. Her parents

did not like Vaultz from their

first encounter, and became

more concerned about him

as he engaged in odd behav-

ior after they moved in to-

gether. In one instance, her

mother said, Vaultz came to

the family home to aid in

searches to identify preda-
tors who would have other-
wise skirted law enforce-
ment has become increas-
ingly common in recent
years.
In addition to the Golden
State Killer case, Los Ange-
les investigators finally ar-
rested the so-called Grim
Sleeper after matching DNA
from the initial crime scenes
to a relative of convicted
killer Lonnie Franklin Jr.
The relative’s DNA had been
collected after he was con-
victed of a felony.
A genealogy match also
led Washington, D.C., police
to capture a man described
as the “Potomac River
Rapist,” who was accused of
multiple assaults around
the Beltway in the 1990s.
Lacey said prosecutors
ran DNA collected from the
initial crime scenes in Bur-
bank and Montclair against
a “commercial DNA data-
base” to narrow the pool of
possible suspects. Kay said
investigators became aware
of Vaultz’s possible involve-
ment sometime in Septem-
ber, and Lacey said the 64-
year-old’s DNA was
matched to the killings
through an item plucked
from his trash last month.
Vaultz has traveled “all
over Southern California”
since the 1980s, according to
Kay, who said the defend-
ant’s permanent residence is
in Bakersfield but that he
“has a connection to Texas.”
Prosecutors have con-
tacted other policing agen-
cies to “determine if the de-
fendant is responsible for
other unsolved murders in
California,” the district at-
torney’s office said in a state-
ment.
“There’s definitely pat-
terns that we’re trying to
look at,” Kay said.
Court records show
Vaultz had been accused of
domestic violence crimes
several times in the last few
decades. In 1996, he was
granted probation in a plea
deal with the L.A. County
district attorney’s office af-
ter he was charged with do-
mestic abuse and assault.
A decade later, he was
charged with domestic vi-
olence crimes again in Kern
County, but prosecutors lat-
er dropped all charges. In
2007, Vaultz was again
charged with beating a
spouse or cohabitant, but

was allowed to plead to a

lesser charge of disturbing

the peace, records show.

One woman sued Vaultz,

alleging domestic violence

in 2005 and 2007, the same

years he was criminally

charged with abuse in Kern

some repair work, but spent

most of the day singing to

himself.

Vaultz continued to ha-

rass the woman long after

their relationship ended, her

mother said. She eventually

moved away from Bakers-

field and escaped Vaultz, but

died of a heart attack in 2011.

She was 43.

“The vibes I got from him,

especially the first time we

found out that he was giving

her a bad time physically

and mentally, I was just so

upset with him and scared to

death for her,” her mother

said. “I just hope and pray he

never gets out.”

Investigators declined to

say whether Vaultz knew ei-

ther of the slain women, or

why he chose to target them.

In both cases, the victims

were bound and sexually as-

saulted.

Duggan’s and Keough’s

families asked not to be dis-

turbed. Sgt. Derek Green,

public information officer

for the Burbank Police De-

partment, said Duggan’s

family described her as the

“life of the party” who often

frequented venues in the

Southern California music

scene.

Duggan’s body was found

in the trunk of her car in a

parking lot near Glenoaks

Boulevard and Cohasset

Street in 1986, according to a

Times article about a reward

offered by the Burbank City

Council seeking information

about her death. Her body

had been covered by news-

papers in the trunk of her

1980 Ford Mustang, accord-

ing to the article, which said

Duggan lived in Reseda with

her father at the time of the

killing.

Keough’s strangled body

was found under bushes in

Montclair. Duggan died of

asphyxia after a tissue was

stuffed down her throat,

prosecutors said.

“Murderers should not

get a free pass because their

DNA is not in a criminal

database,” Lacey said. “No

one wants a serial killer

walking among us.”

Lacey said genealogy in-

vestigations are providing

renewed hope for the fam-

ilies of victims whose cases

are on ice nationwide.

“These cases would have

remained unsolved. The

suspect is 64 years old; the

chances of him doing some-

thing that would get him ar-

rested are pretty slim,” she

said, referring to the pos-

sibility of Vault’s DNA being

collected if he committed a

felony offense. “This tech-

nology was crucial to solving

these two cold cases.”

Times researcher Scott

Wilson contributed to this

report.

L.A. COUNTYDist. Atty. Jackie Lacey on Friday describes the arrest of Horace Van Vaultz Jr., 64, in two cold case killings from the 1980s.

Allen J. SchabenLos Angeles Times

DNA search thaws cold case slayings

[Cold cases,from A1]

‘Murderers should

not get a free pass

because their

DNA is not in a

criminal database.

No one wants a

serial killer

walking among

us.’

— Jackie Lacey,

L.A. County district attorney

CAPE CANAVERAL,
Fla. — Astronauts launched
an extraordinarily compli-
cated series of spacewalks
Friday to fix a cosmic ray de-
tector at the International
Space Station.
Armed with dozens of
dissecting tools, Italian as-

tronaut Luca Parmitano re-

moved two protective covers

to gain access to the inside of

the Alpha Magnetic Spec-

trometer. He handed them

to his U.S. spacewalking

partner, American Andrew

Morgan, for tossing over-

board.

“OK, 3-2-1, release,” Mor-

gan said as he let go of a 4-

foot-long shield high above

the Pacific.

Later, over the South At-

lantic, Morgan ditched the

second, smaller cover. “An-

other great pitch,” Mission

Control radioed.

These latest pieces of

space junk pose no danger to

the orbiting lab, according to

NASA. The larger shield

should remain in orbit a year

or so before reentering the

atmosphere and burning up.

The smaller one should re-

enter in a few weeks.

NASA considers these

spacewalks the most diffi-

cult since the Hubble Space

Telescope repairs a few dec-

ades ago. Unlike Hubble, the

spectrometer was never

meant to undergo space

surgery, but after 8 ½ years

in orbit, its cooling system is

almost dead.

Parmitano and Morgan

will go out at least four times

this month and next to revi-

talize the instrument. Their

second spacewalk is next

Friday.

Delivered to orbit by En-

deavour in 2011 on the next-

to-last space shuttle flight,

the $2-billion spectrometer

is hunting for elusive anti-

matter and dark matter.

The device has already

studied over 148 billion

charged cosmic rays. That’s

more than what was col-

lected in over a century by

high-altitude balloons and

small satellites, said lead sci-

entist Samuel Ting, a Nobel

laureate from MIT who

monitored Friday’s 6 ½-hour

spacewalk from Mission

Control in Houston.

The huge spectrometer

— 16 feet by 13 feet by 10 feet,

with a mass of 7 ½ tons —

was designed to last three

years. By installing four im-

proved coolant pumps, the

astronauts can keep it work-

ing throughout the life of the

space station, or another

five to 10 years. The replace-

ment pumps arrived at the

space station nearly two

weeks ago with an assort-

ment of new tools.

Parmitano, the lead

spacewalker, and Morgan

trained extensively for the

plumbing job before rocket-

ing into orbit in July. They

hustled through Friday’s

cover removals and even got

a jump on future chores.

Next week’s spacewalk

will involve slicing through

stainless-steel tubes and

splicing in connections for

the new pumps, which like

the old will use liquid carbon

dioxide as the coolant.

In some respects, this

work, 250 miles up, is even

trickier than the Hubble

spacewalks, said NASA

project manager Ken Boll-

weg. As before, the stakes

are high.

“Any time you do heart

surgery you’re taking some

risks,” Bollweg said in an in-

terview this week.

Morgan is an emergency

physician in the Army — a

bonus for this kind of intri-

cate work. He’s making his

first spaceflight.

For second-time station

resident Parmitano, the oc-

casion marked a return to

spacewalking following a

close call in 2013. He almost

drowned when his helmet

flooded with water from the

cooling system of his

spacesuit. Unable to talk be-

cause of the rising water, he

managed to keep calm as he

made his way back to the

safe confines of the space

station.

Astronauts begin spacewalks to fix ray detector

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ASTRONAUTSAndrew Morgan, left, and Luca

Parmitano are taking on what NASA considers the

most difficult spacewalks since the Hubble repairs.

NASA