Ford said on the courthouse steps in Reno that the long-unsolved cases remain open. Houston and Sullivan didn’t challenge a no-bail order, and a judge set another hearing for Jan. “Even if DNA shows he had contact with her, where is the act of murder proved?” Houston asked. However, no specific evidence was described in court and Sullivan’s attorney, David Houston, said in an interview he doesn’t believe DNA evidence that was presented to a grand jury ties Sullivan to Woodward’s killing.

Sullivan, 73, pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail. “All evidence points to defendant being a serial killer,” State Attorney General Aaron Ford said in a court filing submitted ahead of Charles Gary Sullivan’s arraignment Tuesday in Reno in the 1979 bludgeoning death of 20-year-old Julia Woodward. Could an Arizona auto dealer charged with killing a California woman in northern Nevada 40 years ago be a serial killer? Nevada’s attorney general believes so, and has theorized that he may have killed other women in the late 1970s.

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