A man suspected in a killing in Florida that happened 39 years ago has been arrested in California, officials say.
A man suspected in a killing in Florida that happened 39 years ago was arrested Thursday in California, officials said.
Donald Santini, 65, was wanted in the 1984 killing of Cynthia Ruth Wood in Hillsborough County in western Florida. He was arrested in Campo, a small community in San Diego County near the Mexico border, on Thursday by a fugitive task force, the U.S. Marshals Service said.“This arrest allows us to reexamine evidence collected in 1984 using the technology of today, as the case is now considered open once again,” spokesperson Amanda Granit of the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.The Florida sheriff's office had an arrest warrant out for Santini in the killing, she said.
Wood's body was found in a ditch in Riverview, southeast of Tampa, on June 9, 1984, and a medical examiner determined she had been strangled,
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