84-year-old arrested 50 years after Minneapolis woman murdered [Video]

DUNN COUNTY, Wis. — More than 50 years after a Minneapolis woman was stabbed to death while hitchhiking to Chicago, an elderly man stands charged with murder in a cold case that has stymied investigators for decades. 

Dunn County Sheriff Kevin Bygd told reporters during a press conference that he was sitting in a deer stand Thursday when his investigators called him with the news they had arrested 84-year-old Jon Keith Miller for the death of a promising young artist back in February of 1974. 

“I had trouble containing my excitement,” Sheriff Bygd admitted. 

A criminal complaint filed in Dunn County Circuit Court lays out the allegations against Miller, who was identified as a suspect with the help of genetic genealogy. Miller, now a resident of Owatonna, is 84 years old but was 33 on Feb. 15, …