An 84-year-old Minnesota man was arrested after new genetic technology linked him to a cold-case murder of a woman in the 1970s.
The Dunn County Sheriff’s Office in Wisconsin announced in a press release that Jon K. Miller was arrested on Thursday, Nov. 7, for the murder of Mary K. Schlais, who was found dead on Feb. 15, 1974, near an intersection in Dunn County, Wis.
Schlais, who was originally from Minneapolis, was “believed to be hitchhiking” from her hometown to an art show in Chicago, according to an initial investigation by police.
“There was an eyewitness that observed a suspect and suspect vehicle that were believed to be connected to the homicide of Mary Schlais,” police said in their statement.
However, despite investigators looking into “tips” and “leads,” and conducting interviews related to the case, they were not able to identify a “viable suspect.”
But later, thanks to advances in DNA …