A serial killer known as the ‘Westside Rapist’ who terrorised middle-aged and elderly women across Los Angeles throughout the 1970s and 80s is behind bars after pleading guilty to murder.John Floyd Thomas, 74, was sentenced to life in prison for the deadly sexual attacks which left seven women dead.
Caught through cold-case DNA testing, police believe Thomas may be responsible for up to 30 more killings and sexual assaults.
He was arrested in March 2009 and charged in the 'Westside Rapist' case in which a man entered the homes of middle-aged and elderly women who lived alone, raped them and choked them until they passed out or died.
The attacks stopped in 1978 — the year Thomas went to prison for the rape of a Pasadena woman — but authorities say they resumed a decade later in the eastern county.
Thomas, an ex-insurance adjuster, was initially charged with the 1972 murder of Ethel Sokoloff, 68, at her home in the Mid-Wilshire area of Los Angeles and the 1976 murder of Elizabeth McKeown, 67, in the Westchester area.
Sokoloff, a retired school administrator, was found semi-nude and dead inside the trunk of her car two blocks from her apartment.
Tracy Michaels, the great niece of McKeown who lived with her as a teenager, told the LA Times: 'He has been my worst nightmare. Read More
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