For nearly 40 years, the murder of a college student, Helene Pruszynski, stumped Colorado detectives. The cold case languished for so long that all but one of her immediate family members had died. It culminated with the Douglas County sheriff announcing on Monday the arrest of a Florida truck driver, James Curtis Clanton, in the abduction, sexual assault and murder of Ms. Pruszynski, who was 21 years old. She was a senior at Wheaton College in Massachusetts and had been returning to her aunt’s home from an internship at a Denver radio station when she was stabbed to death on Jan. 16, 1980. Her body — nude from the waist down and arms tied behind her back — was discovered the next day in a field in what is now Highlands Ranch, Colo.

Source: New York Times December 17, 2019 03:56 UTC