Phoenix police arrest suspect in 1986 cold case murder

Nearly four decades after an 18-year-old woman was found dead inside her home in Phoenix, Arizona, police have made an arrest.

Alfred Earl Green was arrested last Thursday in connection with the killing of Lachelle “Shelley” Waite. He was charged with first-degree murder, the Phoenix Police Department said in a press release on Friday.

Waite was found dead on Jan. 16, 1986. At the time, investigators found no evidence of forced entry into the house and believed she may have known her killer to some degree. Items were also stolen from the home at the time of the homicide, police said…

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