A jury this month convicted a sex offender for a San Jose mall robbery he committed more than three decades ago.

A Santa Clara County Superior Court  jury deliberated over two days before convicting Thomas Loguidice, 67, after a week of testimony.. Loguidice is to be sentenced on Jan. 15, in San Jose. He faces a maximum sentence of life in prison on top of the 40-year sentence he is currently serving on a sexual abuse charge.

In 2022, the Cold Case Unit of the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office discovered that DNA collected from the 1994 crime scene matched an offender profile in the Combined DNA Index System. That profile belonged to Loguidice, who was convicted in 2012 of continuous sexual abuse of a child under 13 in San Benito County, for which he is currently serving a 40-year sentence in state prison.

District Attorney Jeff Rosen said: "We do not forget. The passage of time does not minimize this defendant’s violent and horrific acts, and he deserves to be held accountable. I am grateful for the terrific work of our Crime Lab, investigators, and prosecutors to bring this perpetrator to justice."

On Jan. 13, 1994, the 21-year-old female victim arrived at the President Tuxedo store in Oakridge Mall, where she worked as the acting manager, shortly before 10:00am. As the victim prepared to open the store, prosecutors said Loguidice entered the showroom area and forced her into the back storage room at knifepoint. There, he placed the victim on the ground, bound her wrists, and tied her to a pipe. After taking a small amount of cash from the register in the showroom, investigators said Loguidice returned to the storage area and sexually assaulted the bound and restrained woman before fleeing on foot. The case eventually went cold.

Loguidice was not indicted for the sexual assault this year because the statute of limitations for that crime expired in 2000, according to prosecutors.