Man charged with murder in cold-case killing of Temple City woman whose body was found in Azusa in 1996

LOS ANGELES — A 63-year-old Los Angeles man was charged Monday with murder in connection with the stabbing death of a woman whose nude body was found in an Azusa drainage ditch nearly three decades ago.

Brian Walton is charged with the February 1996 killing of Claudia Guevara, who was reported missing by her older brother after she was last seen at a bus stop in El Monte, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

DNA evidence allegedly linked Walton to the 23-year-old Temple City woman...