Overview
- Attorney General John Formella announced the identification on Monday and said the case will be marked solved with no prosecution because the suspect is deceased.
- Gable, 24 at the time of the crime, died in 1987 in Los Angeles from a stab wound, according to state authorities.
- Investigators said reanalysis of biological material from the scene corrected a 1975 microscopic hair comparison that had wrongly excluded Gable.
- Evidence from 1975 included fingerprints on the outside of Lord’s window, witness accounts that she feared Gable, and indicators of sexual assault and a violent struggle.
- Judy Lord, 22, was found strangled in her Royal Gardens apartment on May 20, 1975, with her 20‑month‑old son discovered unharmed in a nearby room, and the renewed focus followed added Cold Case Unit staff after public pressure.