Brothers behind bars

(11-19) 17:54 PST SAN JOSE - The brother of a man recently charged with a 24-year-old San Jose killing was arrested after a DNA sample he provided to tie his brother to the crime linked him to the rape of an 81-year-old woman, authorities said today.

David Leonard Holland, 46, was arrested Friday in Salinas for the 2001 rape after his DNA sample matched evidence from the attack, authorities said.

"We have to assume he didn't expect this to happen," said David Tomkins, assistant deputy district attorney.

Holland is accused of entering the woman's home through an open door early Oct. 10, 2001, threatening to kill her, then raping her. He left behind DNA that was entered into local, state and federal databases, but no match was found until recently, authorities said.

Holland's brother, Christopher Holland, was charged last month with raping and murdering 17-year-old Cynthia Munoz of Campbell in 1983. She was raped, strangled and stabbed in her bedroom.

To tie Christopher Holland to the crime, investigators got DNA samples from David Holland and another brother. Y chromosomes are almost always the same among men who have the same father.

David Holland's DNA sample was entered into a database maintained by the Santa Clara County crime laboratory, and matched the DNA left at the scene of the 2001 rape, authorities said. The victim of the attack died in 2004.

Both Holland brothers are being held in the Santa Clara County Jail.