Kansas man arrested in 1979 homicide in Colorado

 

March 26, 2021



WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita, Kansas, man has been arrested in the 1979 slaying of a woman in Weld County, Colorado, authorities announced Friday.

James Herman Dye, 64, was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail Monday after Weld County authorities linked him to the death of Evelyn Kay Day, 29.

Dye was charged in Colorado with two counts of first-degree murder and is awaiting extradition from Kansas.

Day's body was found in her car by co-workers on Nov. 27, 1979, near the campus of Aims Community College in Greeley, where she worked.

Day was beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled with a belt...



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