Police on Wednesday arrested a man in Washington state in connection with a 1988 sexual assault and murder of a Wisconsin woman after authorities identified a suspect last month using DNA evidence.
in 2001, since authorities did not have the ability to conduct DNA testing on evidence at the time of the murder, the complaint states.)
An investigator also spoke to Meyer's niece, who said that sometime after 1986, her mother told her that Meyer had called her and said"goodbye" and"thank you for everything," the complaint states. The niece"stated that she felt that something was bothering her mother after that phone call and that there was something that her mother was not tell [sic] her regarding the phone [call] from Gene," according to the document.
The investigator then dug into Meyer's history and found that he had lived only a mile from the crime scene in Appleton in what was then a rooming or boarding house. Meyer is currently awaiting extradition to Wisconsin, where he will face charges of first-degree intentional homicide and first-degree assault, according to the sheriff’s office and the affidavit, which notes he faces life in prison if convicted.shows that Meyer is being held at Pierce County Corrections in Tacoma, Washington on a felony fugitive charge and $2 million bond.
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