Man Serving Life for Four Murders Charged with Four Additional Murders in Cold Hit Case

Man Serving Life for Four Murders
Charged with Four Additional
Murders in Cold Hit Case

June 27, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Joe Scott, Director of Communications
Sandi Gibbons, Public Information Officer
Jane Robison, News Secretary
Shiara Dávila, Assistant PIO
(213) 974-3525

LOS ANGELES – A 51-year-old man serving life in prison without parole for his 1998 quadruple murder conviction was charged today with the murder of four women in the late 1980s and 1990s, the District Attorney’s office announced.

Michael Hughes, (dob 11-1-56), is charged in case BA342652 with four counts each of murder and rape and one count of sodomy by force, said Deputy District Attorney Bobby Grace with the Major Crimes Division. The felony complaint for arrest warrant includes the special circumstances of felony murder/rape, multiple murders and prior murder conviction, making Hughes eligible for the death penalty.

The body of a 15-year-old was found in Imperial Park in Inglewood by two city park employees on Jan. 22, 1986. On May 26, 1986, two teenagers found the body of a woman in the stairwell of a school at 68th Street. The third victim was found in a garage at 323 W. 55th St. on Aug. 30, 1990. The fourth victim was discovered by a security guard at 4635 W. Pico Blvd. on June 25, 1993. Autopsies revealed all four victims had been sexually assaulted and strangled to death.

Hughes was allegedly identified through DNA samples from Sexual Assault Kits by detectives with LAPD’s Robbery-Homicide Division who were investigating unsolved murders between 1960 and 1997.

Arraignment will be announced at a later date.

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