A North Carolina man was accused Thursday of kidnapping and killing a 4-year-old girl who vanished from her South Carolina home 35 years ago, authorities said.
Thomas McDowell, 61, faces charges of murder, kidnapping and first-degree burglary in the 1986 disappearance of Jessica Gutierrez, the Lexington County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.McDowell was arrested after state and local investigators conducted 125 new interviews and reviewed thousands of pages of case files, the department said. The FBI was also involved in the investigation.
Authorities later discovered that someone had entered the family’s home and taken her, Pritchard said.Gutierrez told the newspaper she was relieved an arrest was made.
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