Covert DNA sample from Colorado man's trash revives 44-year-old Texas murder case: report

A 79-year-old Colorado man has been indicted in the 1981 strangulation death of a Texas flight attendant after investigators compared DNA recovered from his trash with blood found on the victim’s clothing.

Larry Dean Brown was arrested June 8 in Colorado and indicted June 29 by a Tarrant County grand jury on a murder charge. He was later extradited to North Texas and booked into the Tarrant County Jail.

Brown is accused of killing Beverly "Casey" Bruneau, a 35-year-old Braniff Airlines...