A sexually violent predator twice convicted of molesting boys in California could face the death penalty if prosecutors can prove he killed a 6-year-old boy in Pomona decades ago.
Detectives say DNA from Kenneth Rasmuson, 53, connects him to the strangling death of Jeffrey Vargo, who disappeared from his Anaheim Hills neighborhood in 1981 and was found dead at a construction site in Pomona.
Rasmuson was arrested March 27 at the lakeside home he shared with his parents in Sandpoint, a resort town in the Idaho panhandle. He had been living there quietly for about five years, police and neighbors said.
Los Angeles County prosecutors have charged Rasmuson with murder and a special allegation that he committed the crime during a lewd or lascivious act on a child, which makes him eligible for the death penalty, said spokesman Greg Risling.
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