A man serving life in prison for four killings was charged Friday with four more cold-case murders that could make him eligible for the death penalty, prosecutors said.
Michael Hughes, 51, was charged with four counts each of murder and rape and one count of sodomy by force, said prosecutor Bobby Grace.
The new case alleges he raped and murdered three women and a teenager from 1986 to 1993. Autopsies done at the time concluded the victims were sexually assaulted and strangled, Grace said.
A spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office did not know whether Hughes had a lawyer to represent him in the new case. His arraignment has not been scheduled.
Los Angeles police detectives assigned to investigate unsolved murders linked Hughes to the murders using DNA samples from the women's bodies, he said.
The victims include a 15-year-old girl killed in suburban Inglewood's Imperial Park in January 1986; a 36-year-old woman who was found in a school stairwell in May 1986; a 30-year-old woman found in a garage in August 1990; and a 32-year-old woman killed in June 1993.
In 1998, Hughes was convicted of murdering Teresa Ballard, Brenda Bradley, Terri Myles and Jamie Harrington in 1992 and 1993.
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