68-year-old suspect arrested nearly 50 years after a man was beaten to death in his Wisconsin home

Nearly five decades after a nude man was found beaten and strangled to death with an electrical cord at his Wisconsin home, police say a suspect is finally in custody.

James Terry Fowler, 68, was arrested on Monday in connection with the 1977 killing of 48-year-old Ralph Ambrose Gianoli, marking a major breakthrough in one of the city’s oldest unsolved homicides.

The Kenosha Police Department announced Monday that Fowler was taken into custody in Memphis, Tennessee, and charged with one count of first-degree homicide…

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