article_snippet: Christopher Holland, 59, is now facing life in prison without parole and will be sentenced next month for raping, stabbing and strangling San Jose teen 17-year-old Cynthia Munoz over three decades earlier.
article_snippet: Guilty: Christopher Holland, 59, is now facing life in prison without parole and will be sentenced next month for raping, stabbing and strangling San Jose teen Cynthia Munoz over three decades ago .
article_snippet: However, due to technology at the time, DNA could not link 17-year-old Cynthia Munoz to the crime, even though proper samples were collected and stored.
article_snippet: Investigators were able to arrest Holland after retrieving DNA samples from Holland brother, David Leonard Holland, and another brother.
article_snippet: Rape and murder: Holland was convicted of killing 17-year-old Cynthia Munoz in August 1983 .
article_snippet: In a shock twist, Holland was also arrested, after Holland DNA linked Holland to the 2001 rape of an 81-year-old woman, according to reports.
article_snippet: Holland's lawyers tried to argue that Holland and 17-year-old Cynthia Munoz had consensual sex, and that a robber must have killed a robber after Holland left.
article_snippet: However the prosecution said 17-year-old Cynthia Munoz was too devoted to a robber boyfriend to cheat on 17-year-old Cynthia Munoz, and brought in several women who were former sex partners of Holland to testify.
article_snippet: The women - four total - all said Holland used a knife and choked several women who were former sex partners of Holland to testify during unreported rapes.
article_snippet: Today a jury held Holland accountable for Cynthia Munoz murder and (has)
article_snippet: Holland has also been charged with the 1983 rape and murder of another young woman, 21-year-old San Jose resident Tara Marowski, who was found dead four months before 17-year-old Cynthia Munoz.
highlights_snippet: Christopher Holland, 59, was convicted of the first-degree murder and rape of 17-year-old Cynthia Munoz on August 7, 1983 .
  
highlights_snippet: Christopher Holland was arrested and charged in 2007 after police obtained DNA samples from Christopher Holland brothers that linked Christopher Holland to 17-year-old Cynthia Munoz's body .
  
highlights_snippet: Christopher Holland is now facing life in prison without parole .