VIRGINIA, Minn. – Police have arrested a northern Minnesota man in the cold-case killing of a woman 34 years ago.
Agents from the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension and Chisholm police arrested the 52-year-old Chisholm man on Wednesday. He was booked into jail on probable cause second-degree murder. Investigators arrested the suspect after a BCA lab confirmed that his DNA matched DNA from the crime scene.
Nancy Daugherty of Chisholm was last seen alive early on July 16, 1986.
That afternoon, police conducting a welfare check found her dead inside her home. DNA at the scene did not match any persons in the criminal DNA database. But a company that analyzes public genealogy databases this month identified the man as a potential suspect in the case.
