Woman's picture links serial killer to another cold case slaying

ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo. -- Murder charges have been filed against a convicted California serial killer in the cold case murder of a young woman in Wyoming nearly four decades ago.It was one of the photographs of women found with the personal belongings of death row inmate Rodney Alcala, 73, that helped link him to the 1977 killing of Christine Ruth Thornton, sheriff’s officials and prosecutors in Sweetwater County, Wyoming said Tuesday. Police believe Alcala killed 28-year-old Thornton, of San