SAN JOSE — A man serving a lengthy prison sentence has been charged with tying up and robbing an Oakridge Mall employee in 1994, after authorities say they matched cold-case forensic evidence to DNA he submitted after an unrelated sexual abuse conviction.
Pictured are a 2006 booking photo of Thomas John Loguidice, left, and a 1994 San Jose police sketch of a suspect wanted in a cold-case kidnapping and assault at Oakridge Mall that year. Loguidice has been charged with the 1994 case after investigators matched forensic evidence from that crime scene to his DNA sample taken after a separate 2012 sexual abuse conviction in San Benito County, authorities