The family of a 17-year-old California girl who was brutally raped and murdered in 1983 have finally found justice , after a man was found guilty this week of the 'cruel and senseless death ' . 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 earlier . The jury spent two days deliberating , before handing down the guilty verdict . Munoz was found dead in her bedroom insider her home in Campbell . She had just returned home from visiting her quadriplegic boyfriend in the hospital when she was attacked . Holland and a friend were regular visitors to the home . 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 . However , due to technology at the time , DNA could not link him to the crime , even though proper samples were collected and stored . Investigators were able to arrest Holland after retrieving DNA samples from his brother , David Leonard Holland , and another brother . Y chromosomes are almost always the same among men who have the same father . Rape and murder : Holland was convicted of killing Cynthia Munoz in August 1983 . In a shock twist , David Holland was also arrested , after his DNA linked him to the 2001 rape of an 81-year-old woman , according to reports . David Holland was convicted in that case and is now serving out a sentence in state prison , The San Francisco Chronicle reported . Christopher Holland was arrested in 2007 . He was found hiding in the closet of a San Jose apartment . His trial started in January . Holland 's lawyers tried to argue that he and Munoz had consensual sex , and that a robber must have killed her after he left . However the prosecution said Munoz was too devoted to her boyfriend to cheat on him , and brought in several women who were former sex partners of Holland to testify . The women - four total - all said Holland used a knife and choked them during unreported rapes . The behavior was similar to the injuries and abuse that Munoz had suffered , the court heard . 'Cynthia Munoz 's family has waited 31 years to find justice for her cruel and senseless death , 'Christopher Walsh , Santa Clara County deputy district attorney , told The Chronicle in a statement . 'Today a jury held Christopher Holland accountable for her murder and ( has ) hopefully given Cynthia 's loved ones some measure of peace . ' 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 Munoz . Holland is yet to stand trail on those charges . He refused to be present in court as the verdict was handed down . 'He 's scared to death , ' his lawyer Michael Ogul , said , according to the San Jose Mercury News . 'He ca n't handle being out here . '
Christopher Holland , 59 , was convicted of the first-degree murder and rape of 17-year-old Cynthia Munoz on August 7 , 1983 . Teen was found dead in her San Jose bedroom . Holland was arrested and charged in 2007 after police obtained DNA samples from his brothers that linked him to Munoz 's body . He is now facing life in prison without parole .