Mercury News: San Jose cold case: Imprisoned man convicted in 1994 kidnapping at Oakridge Mall
SAN JOSE — A jury this week convicted a man of kidnapping an Oakridge Mall employee more than three decades ago, after a cold-case investigation implicated him through DNA evidence obtained while he was in state prison for an unrelated crime, according to authorities and court records.
Thomas John Loguidice, 67, was found guilty Wednesday of one felony charge of aggravated kidnapping with intent for robbery in a Jan. 13, 1994 attack on a then-21-year-old Denise Crank.
Loguidice had been serving a 40-year sentence in a Soledad prison for a 2012 child sex abuse conviction in San Benito County when he was linked to the mall kidnapping.
In the summer of 2022, the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office cold-case unit revisited the investigation and eventually matched forensic evidence preserved from the crime scene with a DNA profile Loguidice was required to submit after his conviction.