Suspect, 78, charged in 44-year-old Texas cold case kidnapping, murder of nursing student [Video]

A 78-year-old man incarcerated nearly 2,000 miles away has been charged with the 1980 sexual assault and murder of a 25-year-old Texas nursing student, Austin police said in a press release Friday.

Thanks to DNA technology, police say Deck Brewer Jr. — currently serving time in Massachusetts for an unrelated crime — allegedly kidnapped and killed Susan Leigh Wolfe a block from her home around 10 p.m. on Jan. 9, 1980, while walking to a friend’s house.

Wolfe had just enrolled at the University of Texas Austin School of Nursing that day and was just four days from her 26th birthday, when she was murdered.

A witness to the kidnapping said they saw a car stop and the suspect grabbed Wolfe off the sidewalk in a “bear hug” and forced her inside after throwing a coat over her head.

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Investigators found her dead …