Police make arrest in 1984 murder

from Boston Crime Universal Hub by adamg
Boston Police today charged an Atlanta resident with beating and strangling a Roxbury woman to death almost 24 years ago.
Sultan Omar Chezulu, now 60, was arrested in Georgia today and will be transported back to Boston to face a charge of murdering Elsie "Yolanda" Hernandez sometime between the time she left work on Washington Street in Roxbury on Dec. 28, 1984 and the time her body was found amidst garbage between Shawmut Avenue and Washington Street the next day.
Police Commissioner Ed Davis says Chezulu, who actually lived in Boston - and Boston-area jails - until 2004, was tracked down by his department's Unsolved Case Squad and investigators from the Suffolk County District Attorney's office - who used DNA to track him down.