INDIANAPOLIS (AP) _ Prosecutors say a DNA match has led them to charge a man in connection with the 1998 slaying of a Indianapolis woman.
Marion County Prosecutor Terry Curry said Wednesday that Johnny Jones faces murder, rape and burglary charges stemming from the killing of Kenya Edwards. The 26-year-old woman's partially burned body was found in an Indianapolis home in November 1998.
Cold case detectives reviewed Edwards' slaying in 2009 and submitted evidence collected during her autopsy for DNA testing.
Curry says that testing and a DNA database identified the 58-year-old Jones as Edwards' suspected killer “years after this murder was committed.''
Jones' initial hearing is set for Sept. 14. He's incarcerated in Indiana on an unrelated 2014 conviction for unlawful possession of a firearm by a violent felon.
