TACOMA, Wash. (AP) - Tacoma police have arrested a man suspected of killing a 12-year-old girl more than three decades ago.
The News Tribune reports 66-year-old Gary Hartman was booked into Pierce County Jail Wednesday afternoon on suspicion of first-degree murder in the death of Michella Welch.
Prosecutors are expected to charge him Thursday.
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Police declined to talk about the arrest or how they linked Hartman to Welch’s death. A news conference is set for Friday.
Welch was abducted March 26, 1986, from a Tacoma park and found dead later that day.
It wasn’t immediately known if Hartman has an attorney.
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Information from: The News Tribune, http://www.thenewstribune.com
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