SAN DIEGO (AP) - A man suspected of killing a Navy dental technician in California more than four decades ago was arrested in New York, police said Wednesday.
Dennis Lepage, 62, was arrested in Troy last Friday and was being held pending extradition, San Diego police said.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether he had an attorney.
“Emerging forensic sciences and technology” helped break the case, police said in a statement.
Lepage was held on suspicion of killing 28-year-old Alvaro Espeleta, who was found dead in his San Diego home on Dec. 31, 1975 by co-workers after he failed to show up for work, police said.
Investigators from the Police Department, county district attorney’s office, FBI and the Navy investigated the cold case.
New York state and Albany County authorities assisted, police said.
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