A man finally pleaded guilty to killing a homeless man in Santa Ana, in 1984

John William Zelinski
John William Zelinski, a 62-year-old man, pleaded guilty Wednesday to voluntary manslaughter for fatally stabbing a homeless man in Santa Ana in 1984, according to the O.C. Register.
Zelinski was originally looking at a murder charge and a sentencing enhancement for the use of a deadly weapon, but he accepted a plea deal from prosecutors.
Zelinski is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 21.
Zelinski  killed a man named Roy Thomas Emming on May 18, 1984, when he sta