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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Steve Karnowski and Frank Jordans

DNA testing leads to former US Army soldier in 1978 killing of woman in Germany

ASSOCIATED PRESS

DNA testing has led to the arrest of a Nebraska man who was repeatedly questioned over decades in the 1978 stabbing death of a woman while he was stationed with the U.S. Army in Germany, authorities said.

Tommy Molina, 69, was arrested in the western Nebraska city of Gering on June 21, the U.S. Marshals Service in Omaha said in a statement Thursday. He is awaiting extradition to Germany to face a murder charge.

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