Ohio man charged in 1991 killing of employer

Associated Press

COLUMBUS

Police in Ohio credit advances in DNA science for an arrest in the nearly 20-year-old killing of a woman found bound to her bed and stabbed in the chest.

Columbus police say 46-year-old Richard Allen Fugate was arrested Thursday and charged with murder in the 1991 death of Nancy L. Leslie, who was 44 at the time.

Police say in a news release that Fugate had been hired by Leslie to do work on her home several months before she was killed.

They say state investigators recently found and identified DNA on evidence collected from Leslie’s body that matched samples from Fugate.

Leslie’s daughter found her body bound to her bed’s headboard.

Fugate is scheduled to make a court appearance this morning.

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