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The Pima County Attorney's Office will seek the death penalty for a man accused of raping and killing a 74-year-old woman in an August 2001 case.

Prosecutors Kellie Johnson and Nicol Green believe Antonio Rosales, 42, should be executed for killing Dolores Netherton Salvatierra because of her age and because the slaying was committed in a "cold, calculated manner." They also say he committed other serious crimes at the same time as the murder and he's already been convicted of an unrelated crime for which a life sentence was possible.

According to past news accounts of the case, Rosales and Salvatierra were living together near South Park Avenue and Barraza-Aviation Parkway when Salvatierra's body was found by a friend.

Tucson police suspected Rosales was responsible but were unable to find him until 2003, when they tracked him down in a Florida jail.

Pima County prosecutors indicted Rosales that year on one count each of first-degree murder, sexual assault and burglary, but because of the Florida case, waited to bring him back to Arizona.

Rosales was convicted on attempted-murder, kidnapping and sexual-battery charges in Seminole County, Fla., near Orlando, according to Florida Department of Corrections online records.

Rosales was booked into the Pima County jail in April.

At the time of her death, friends described Salvatierra as a native Tucsonan who was active in the Democratic Party and the Barrio San Antonio Neighborhood Association. She served on the board of directors of The Haven, an alcohol-abuse-treatment facility.

Salvatierra also worked as a dispatcher at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base and took classes at Pima Community College.

No trial date has yet been scheduled.