The man, 55, confessed he was involved in the death of 72-year-old Wilhelmina Reid, whose body was found Aug. 18, 1982, in her Salt Lake City apartment, according to a news statement from the South Sioux City Police Department in Iowa. Reid died of blunt force trauma, police wrote.
Salt Lake City investigators first interviewed the man a year ago and obtained his DNA, which matched evidence at the scene of Reid’s death, police wrote. Detectives spoke with the man again and “gained [his] admission,” police wrote.
The man was 17 at the time of Reid’s death and moved to Nebraska not long afterward, police wrote.