A convicted sex offender has been charged for a 1994 kidnapping case at a San Jose mall thanks to a recent match in a DNA database, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office announced on Tuesday.
Twenty-eight years ago, a 21-year-old manager of the President Tuxedo store in the Westfield Oakridge Mall was attacked by a man when she opened up shop one morning.
According to police reports, a man entered the store’s showroom at around 10 a.m., forced her into the storage room at knifepoint, and tied her to a pipe. He took money from the cash register and sexually assaulted her before leaving the scene on foot.