El Monte man charged in 1996 killing at Covina assisted-living center pleads not guilty

An El Monte man allegedly linked by DNA to the rape and killing of a 67-year-old woman at an assisted living center in Covina more than two decades...

January 27, 2023
2:40 PM

An El Monte man allegedly linked by DNA to the rape and killing of a 67-year-old woman at an assisted living center in Covina more than two decades ago has pleaded not guilty to a grand jury indictment charging him with murder. David Adolph Bernal, now 49, allegedly strangled Mary Lindgren at an assisted living facility in the 800 block of West San Bernardino Road on Jan. 19, 1996. The murder charge includes the special circumstance allegations of murder during the commission of a rape, sodomy and burglary.

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