The Baton Rouge Police Department has made an arrest in a 1987 cold case, after DNA evidence found on the cord used to bind the victim’s hands led them to a suspect in Alabama.
Thomas L. Klotz, a local radio station employee, was found on April 18, 1987, by the cleaning staff in his hotel room at the Red Carpet Inn on South Acadian Thruway with multiple stab wounds and his arms tied behind his back with a nylon cord, police said. Klotz, who was from Fort Wayne, Indiana, was in town for several weeks working as a jingle writer for radio stations WJBO and WFMF
Not enough evidence was found in 1987 to create a suspect profile. The cord along with other pieces of evidence were kept by the police until 2011, when they were submitted for DNA analysis at the Louisiana State Police Lab…