Laurie Houts biography: 13 things about Mountain View, California computer engineer

Laurie Anne Houts was an American computer engineer born in Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. Here are 13 more things about her:

1. She is one of the four daughters of Virginia Furrer Houts.
2. She lived in different parts of California including Davis, San Jose and Milpitas.
3. She worked as a computer engineer at Adobe Systems on Charleston Road in Mountain View, California.
4. She was 5’0″ tall.
5. Her boyfriend was the roommate of John Kevin Woodward, who was 7 years younger than her.
6. In March 1963, her sister Suzanne Houts was born.
7. in March 1970, her sisters Cindy Joanne Houts and Linda Jolene Houts were born.
8. From 1982 to 1985, she attended Henry T. Gunderson High School in San Jose where she played three sports including basketball.
9. On September 5, 1992, after leaving work at Adobe Systems in Mountain View, she was found by a passerby dead with a rope around her neck in her car near a garbage dump on Crittenden Lane in Mountain View. It was about a mile from her work. Woodward allegedly killed her. She was 25.
10. In 1995, Woodward was unsuccessfully prosecuted in her killing.
11. In 1996, Woodward was unsuccessfully prosecuted again in her killing.
12. On July 9, 2022, Woodward was arrested for her murder. On August 24, 2023, the murder charges filed against him were dismissed due to double jeopardy. On August 29, 2023, a stay order to keep him under house arrest with an ankle monitor was granted.
13. On February 5, 2024, her family hosted a free throw contest in her honor at Central YMCA in San Jose.