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POMONA — A former Monrovia gang member was behind bars today in connection with the 2001 kidnapping and murder of a Cal Poly Pomona student on her way to a fraternity party.
James Winslow Dixon, 32, who was arrested at his home Jan. 14 and booked on suspicion of murder at the sheriff's Walnut Station, is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in Pomona Superior Court. He was being held at the Men's Central Jail pending arraignment.
Christina Burmeister, 20, of Cerritos, disappeared on the evening of Aug. 17, 2001 after stopping in Pomona to buy cigarettes, and her body was found in the morning in her Chevrolet S-10 pickup, near Mile Marker 20-1 on San Gabriel Canyon (39) Road north of Azusa.
The Chi Omega sorority member, who was found with her throat slit, had been on her way to a fraternity party in Pomona when she was abducted.
"It's hard to think about it, what happened to her, the fear she must have had," Cliff Burmeister, Christina's father, told a local TV station. "It makes you sad that you couldn't have been there to help her."
Christina's mother Rosie said she was grateful for the arrest, but her daughter is "still gone."
"She was the one that brought the greatest joy to our lives, a smile to our hearts, a smile to our faces," Rosie Burmeister told the station. "I don't think I've smiled much since she died."
Rosie Burmeister said the family would be there for Dixon's court appearances.
"They need to know that she was a wonderful live person," she said. "She was one of a family that was loved and in just a hearbeat, they took her away from everything she had for absolutely no reason."
DNA taken from a cigar butt found in or near the truck tied Dixon to the crime -- thanks to Proposition 69, which was passed in November and required all felons to submit genetic material to a statewide crime database, according to sheriff's Detective Philip Guzman. Dixon, an ex-felon, was released from prison in 1993, he said.
Surveillance video from a Washington Mutual bank machine in Montclair shortly before midnight on the night of Burmeister's disappearance, showed a hooded woman using Burmeister's ATM car to make three withdrawals -- two for $100 and one for $200.
The female suspect remains at large.
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