Nearly 30 years after the crime, a suspect has been arrested in the 1993 murder of a D.C. woman, authorities say.
Police located Debra McManus, 39, of Southeast, D.C. in a wooded area near 4th and Trenton Street, Southeast on Saturday, Oct. 23, 1993. They found McManus, unconscious and unresponsive, the Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement.
At the time, an autopsy determined she was killed by manual strangulation and authorities ruled her death a homicide.
Police arrested William Ransford, 58, of Southeast, D.C. on Thursday, in accordance to a DC Superior Court issued arrest warrant. He was charged with second degree murder.
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