Fullerton Man Arrested For Cold Case 2001 LA Murder
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man has been charged with killing a 20-year-old friend after trying to rape her in his Los Angeles apartment nearly a decade ago.
The district attorney's office said Friday that 31-year-old Christopher McAmis is being held on $1 million bail in the death of Lynsie Ekelund in February 2001.
Prosecutors say after an evening out with her and two friends, McAmis dropped off the other women at their homes and took Ekelund to his apartment where he tried to rape her.
Prosecutors say he killed her and disposed of her body. Her mother reported her missing.
Police investigated to no avail.
In 2008, the Orange County district attorney's office reopened the case. McAmis was arrested Wednesday at his Fullerton home.
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