BREAKING NEWS: Owatonna man arrested in 50-year-old murder
Jon K. Miller
An elderly man from Owatonna has been taken into custody in connection with a murder that happened in Wisconsin a half century ago,
Police arrested Jon Miller, 84, Thursday at his Owatonna home. He is being held in the Steele County Detention Center awaiting extradition to Wisconsin.
Authorities in Wisconsin charged Miller with first-degree murder on Thursday.
Miller is accused of killing Mary K. Schlais on Feb. 15, 1974, as she was hitchhiking from Minneapolis to Chicago for an art show.
Genetic evidence was used to solve the mystery and arrest Miller.
We will have more details as they become available.