Warning: This story discusses sexual assault.
An arrest has been made in Jennifer Odom‘s long-unsolved murder case.
Jeffrey Norman Crum, 61, was charged with murder, kidnapping and sexual battery in connection to the 12-year-old’s death three a long time after her body was present in a field in Hernando County, Fla., in line with the County Sheriff Al Nienhuis.
Odom vanished on Feb. 12, 1993 after getting off her school bus just 200 yards from her home in Pasco County, Fla. She was found dead with signs trauma in a neighboring county six days later.
In a July 27 press conference, the sheriff said investigators spent years searching for the suspect—who they believed drove a blue pickup truck based on suggestions from students on the college bus the day of Odom’s disappearance—but lots of their leads went cold. They’d a breakthrough within the case when investigators noticed how Odom’s attack was “almost equivalent” to a separate attack on one other young girl made 13 months prior to her death, in line with Nienhuis.