Answers come out in 50-year-old slaying

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TEXAS MAN TRACED TO UNSOLVED CASE IN OAKLAND
By Harry Harris
MediaNews
Within hours after police say he stabbed a man to death outside an Oakland restaurant on a March night in 1956, Alfonso Del Rio disappeared.

His Oakland apartment was empty, his car missing and police assumed he had returned to his native Mexico.

Now, more than a half-century later, police have arrested Del Rio in a Texas border city, obtained a confession, and closed one of Oakland's oldest unsolved cases...

http://www.mercurynews.com:80/mld/me...a/16680135.htm

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``I got no sense he regretted it,'' Cruz said. ``There were no tears. It was more like he was describing a very intense incident. He had intensity but no emotion. He actually started shaking at one point. It was very apparent it had been bothering him. His recollection was so vivid, he obviously had thought about it.''

I'd have a tough time with the sentencing on this one if it were my loved one that was killed.