Man charged with murder in 1973 killing of 11-year-old Newport Beach girl dies in custody
A 73-year-old inmate charged with the abduction and killing of an 11-year-old Corona del Mar girl in 1973 died early Wednesday while awaiting trial. James Alan Neal was arrested in Colorado last year, with Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer attributing the use of genetic geneology DNA as the key to solving the decades-old mystery…