ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – The Albuquerque man who confessed to two high-profile cold case murders pleaded not guilty to one of those cases on Friday. Paul Apodaca is charged in the 1988 murder of University of New Mexico student Althea Oakley.
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Oakley was stabbed near UNM. The Albuquerque Police Department says Apodaca also confessed to the murder of Kaitlyn Arquette in 1989. The 18-year-old was shot to death while in her car in downtown Albuquerque. Prosecutors are asking he remain locked up until trial in Oakley’s case, he has yet to be charged in any other.