BREMERTON (AP) — Police say detectives have arrested a man in Idaho in connection with a 26-year-old Washington state murder case after DNA evidence linked him to the crime.
54-year-old Robert Miller was arrested this week in Boise, Idaho on a murder warrant.
The arrest stems from the 1992 killing of 57-year-old Marilyn Hickey of Bremerton. Her body was found in September of 1992 in her apartment.
Her death was ruled a homicide but no arrests were made.
The case was reopened in 2006 and the Washington State Patrol’s crime lab was able to extract a DNA profile of the suspected killer. It matched DNA in another unsolved homicide case from Boise.
Police in both departments worked to identify Miller as the suspect.