VAN NEST, Bronx (WABC) -- The suspect in a 17-year-old cold case murder in the Bronx is back in New York to face charges.
39-year-old Christopher Gonzalez was extradited from Florida after police linked him to the unsolved killing of 19-year-old Dora Devalle Almontaser in December of 2000.
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Almontaser was found dead in her Van Nest apartment after she was strangled with a phone cord.
Gonzalez was initially arrested in Naples earlier this year after he was pulled over for driving with a suspended license. His fingerprints taken from that stop then linked him to Almontaser's murder last month.
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Police also believe Gonzalez is linked to the 2005 murder of Yonkers resident Angel Serbay, who was found dead on the shoulder of the Sprain Brook Parkway.