The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) has identified the man linked to two cold case murders from 1990.
Detectives say Eddie George Snowden Jr. was identified in the sexual assaults and deaths of 31-year-old Lori Ann Perera and 35-year-old Pearl "Pinkie" Wilson Ingram.
Perera's body was found on December 11, 1992, near what was then a Montgomery Ward retail store located at the 2800 block of E Charleston Blvd.
Ingram's body was found on January 11, 1994, inside a dumpster behind a Vons store located at the 4400 block of E Charleston Blvd.
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Investigators say both women were found either partially or entirely nude, with their cause of death both being strangulation.
Case reviews in 2007 and 2012 led to additional DNA being found for both women, which later led investigators to believe both cases were connected, although no suspect had been identified.
In 2022, police had a breakthrough in the case and preliminarily identified Snowden as the suspect. A records check later found that Snowden had lived at the 2800 block of E Charleston during both murders.
His criminal history also found that he had lived in various cities near the Fresno area from the 1950s through the 1970s.
Snowden, who died of natural causes in Las Vegas in February 2017, was positively identified using the DNA of his family and with the help of the Fresno Police Department.
Police say no arrests will be made but urges authorities in the Fresno area to check their cold cases for similar patterns in the deaths of Perrera and Ingram.