Kirby R King is charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Karla Jane Delcour. US authorities announced murder charges this week against a man in the 1987 killing of a young Missouri woman who was found dead near a highway with her hands tied to a rope around her neck. READ MORE:* Cold case killer of 9-year-old American girl may have been hiding in plain sight* DNA cracks United States cold case of mystery woman's death* How police and the FBI found one of the United States' worst serial killers* How a woman's brave escape helped reveal a 'serial killer'Pelton said his department has a cold case team consisting of a detective and four retired investigators. King was interviewed in 1987, again in the early 2000s and yet again earlier this year in Texas, said Pelton. The decomposed remains of Delcour, who was 22 when she was killed, were found in June 1987 along an Interstate 44 service road.

Source: Stuff December 27, 2019 22:30 UTC