An arrest has been made in a Lafayette Parish homicide that left one man dead more than three decades ago.
On December 2, 1994, Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Deputies responded to the 4200 block of Cameron St. in reference to a stabbing. The victim, John Perry Meche, 47, was transported to a local hospital, where he later died from his injuries. Due to a lack of evidence linking a suspect to the murder as well as the limitations of available technology, the case was stalled for more than 30 years, according to
Late last year, detectives reviewing the cold case worked with the Acadiana Crime Lab to reexamine and retest evidence related to the case, which resulted in a successful DNA match and identified the suspect as Clinton Dronet…