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Unfortunately, her parents wouldn't let her testify against him, which might have led to a longer jail sentence.Instead, he got away with a mere 34 months in prison for committing child molestation.Huntington Beach police Chief Robert Handy says the Thornton case highlights strong work by his detectives, then and now.“This wouldn’t be solved if he didn’t have a hunch,” Handy said of Ellis.

After a stint in the army, Alcala graduated from UCLA and attended NYU, leaving a trail of victims in his wake.From there, investigations and DNA testing of Thornton’s family eventually tracked the remains to a federal database that included information about a then-unidentified body in Wyoming.When investigators in Wyoming saw the picture, they didn’t recognize the woman but they did notice the background looked like Wyoming.They said Alcala met Thornton and killed her while on a road trip, then buried her on a ranch in Granger, Wyo.Thornton was about six months pregnant at the time of her death, according to the warrant for Alcala’s arrest.