Mary Schlais was hitchhiking from Minneapolis to Chicago when she was killed. A 84-year-old man has been arrested for a cold case murder from 50 years ago after he was linked to the crime via ...

The cold case ... was arrested Thursday after he “confirmed his involvement” in the vicious stabbing of Mary Schlais, whose body was found at a Spring Brook intersection in February 1974.

An 84-year-old man confessed to his involvement in a 50-year-old cold case after authorities tracked him down using genetic genealogy. Jon K. Miller, 84, was arrested last week in the homicide of ...