SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS RADIO) – A tech CEO has been arrested in connection with the murder of a Bay Area woman 30 years ago.
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John Kevin Woodward, 58, President and CEO of Readytech, was taken into custody Saturday at JFK Airport in New York.
He was charged with the strangulation murder of Laurie Houts, a 25-year-old computer engineer who was his roommate's girlfriend while he lived in Mountain View in 1992, the Santa Clara Office of the District Attorney reported.
September 5, 1992, Houts was found dead in her vehicle in the 1300 block of Crittenden Lane, near a garbage dump about a mile from her work. She had been strangled with a rope, which was still around her neck, and her footprints were on the inner windshield, showing signs of a struggle, authorities said.
According to the report, Woodward was tried twice in the late 1990's for Houts' murder, but the case was dismissed for insufficient evidence. However, in 2021, detectives allegedly linked Woodward to the rope found around Houts' neck using advances in forensic science technology.
Woodward is currently being held without bail in New York while he awaits extradition to California. If convicted, he faces life in prison.
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