Mississippi authorities arrest suspect in 1976 Texas slaying
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Mississippi authorities have arrested a man wanted in a 1976 slaying in Texas.
WDAM-TV reports (http://bit.ly/2qaAr1q ) 61-year-old David Lee Edds was arrested Thursday by U.S. marshals and Wayne County sheriff's deputies. They found Edds living in a tent in the woods after locating his truck.
Edds was jailed in Wayne County. Sheriff Jody Ashley said the suspect will be extradited to Texas.
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The arrest came three days after the sheriff of Harris County, Texas, announced a warrant had been issued charging Edds with murder in the May 1976 stabbing of Rene Anthony Guillotte of Houston. Texas authorities said cold-case investigators linked DNA evidence to Edds, who lived near the road where the victim's body was found.