A Mexican who fled the U.S. a decade ago has been identified as the suspect in the 1997 cold case killing of a 26-year-old Southern Californian woman, police said. Cops believe college student Sunny Sudweeks was raped and strangled to death when an intruder broke into her home in Costa Mesa home after midnight on February 23, 1997. Costa Mesa Police named Felipe Vianney Hernandez Tellez as her killer at a press conference Thursday on the 20th anniversary of the murder. Police said that Hernandez, 43, had lived in Costa Mesa and Santa Ana until he fled to Mexico in 2006. COLD CASE MURDER OF RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS SINGER'S EX-WIFE SOLVED“Sunny was a beautiful young woman.

Source: Fox News February 24, 2017 19:39 UTC