PAULDING, Ohio (WOWO): Just days before a decades-old murder case was set to appear on national television, authorities have made an arrest.

Friday officers from the Defiance Police Department and Paulding County Sheriff's Department arrested 58-year-old Steven Noffsinger. Noffsinger is charged with aggravated murder in the 1981 death of Alma Noffsinger.

More than 30 years later the case may be coming to close.

In a press release Paulding County Sheriff Jason Landers said, “Deputy Rob Garcia and Lt. Brion Hankenkratt have put a lot of man hours into this cold case over the past several months, along with cold case investigators that were brought into assist our office. I commend them for their dedication to see this through. I am pleased to know the healing process can start for Alma's family.”

In November 1981, 29-year old Alma Noffsinger, a mother of three, was found dead in an Oakwood, Ohio home. At the time, the coroner it was ruled a homicide from a multiple blows to the skull.

Friday, August 8, TNT Networks' show Cold Justice was scheduled feature the crime. No word if the network will adjust those plans.  

You can find more information on the scheduled episode by clicking here.