A San Diego man accused of killing a woman and dumping her body in Scripps Ranch 33 years ago pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a sole count of murder.
Randall Eugene Oyler faces up to 25 years to life if convicted in the death of Margaret Jackson, whose body was found July 11, 1990, on a steep embankment in a eucalyptus grove near what is now Scripps Ranch High School.
San Diego Superior Court Judge Theodore Weathers ordered Wednesday that Oyler, 62, remain jailed without bail.
Jackson, 48, had a yellow nylon rope around her neck when she was found. She apparently had been strangled and beaten to death, authorities said at the time.
Although her case was investigated by a special task force looking into the slayings of nearly four dozen women in less than a decade in San Diego, it went cold.
San Diego police reopened the case last year. Last week, they arrested Oyler.
No new details of the case were shared during his arraignment in San Diego Superior Court, including what led detectives to Oyler as a suspect. He is due back in court later this month.
