Soldier Arrested 40 Years After Girl, 5, Abducted on Her Way to School, Discovered Dead.

Murder charges have been filed in the 40-year-old cold case of Anne Pham’s murder by the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office on July 7.

As a 5 year child from Seaside, Pham was abducted and murdered two days later on South Boundary Road while on her way to kindergarten at Highland Elementary School.

The DA Office’s announcement did not mention all of the grisly circumstances of the case: Pham was kidnapped, raped, and then suffocated to death when she was released from captivity.