Woman charged in unsolved 1989 killing in Kansas
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A woman has been charged in the death of a 19-year-old woman whose body was found nearly 30 years ago in Kansas City, Kansas.
The Wyandotte County District Attorney's office said in a release Thursday that 48-year-old Carolyn J. Heckert is charged with first-degree murder in the December 1989 death of Sarah DeLeon, who was found stabbed to death along some railroad tracks.
Heckert is being held on $1 million bond following her arrest Wednesday in Smithville, Missouri, which is about 20 miles east of Kansas City, Kansas.
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Police have said new DNA collection and testing technology prompted investigators to reopen the DeLeon case in July 2014.
A lawyer for Heckert didn't immediately return calls seeking comment Thursday.