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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. (AP) — Investigators say DNA evidence has linked an Oregon prison inmate to at least two of five killings of young women that terrified the San Francisco Bay Area for four months in 1976.
The San Mateo district attorney's office says 66-year-old Rodney Halbower is also being investigated for the rest of the killings and the death of a teenager in Nevada.
Halbower is charged in the deaths of 17-year-old Paula Baxter and 18-year-old Veronica Cascio.
Their two deaths were among six police say are connected and occurred between January and April in 1976 in California and Nevada. Four of the bodies were found in the suburbs immediately south of San Francisco and one was found near Gypsy Hill Road, giving the killings their nickname. A sixth body was found in Reno.
Halbower is scheduled to enter a plea in Redwood City on Monday.
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