Cigarette butt helps Washington police hunt 1980 murder suspect across country: ‘I was hooked in this case’

An Arkansas man has been arrested and charged with a decades-old rape and murder of a young woman in Washington after DNA from his cigarette linked him to the victim. 

"I was just so relieved," Kent Police Det. Sgt. Tim Ford, the lead investigator on the case, told Fox News Digital.

Kent detectives and Van Buren County Sheriff's deputies arrested Kenneth Duane Kundert, 65, Aug. 20 at his home near Clinton, Arkansas. He has been charged with first-degree murder.

The arrest brings...