Man arrested in 41-year-old cold case murder in Southern California
A 70-year-old man was arrested Friday in connection with a 1983 murder in Southern California, police said.
A 70-year-old man was arrested Friday in connection with a 1983 murder in Southern California, police said.
Michael Larry Manatt, of Huntington Beach, was arrested in connection with the murder of Ronald Gaskey, who police said was killed in his Newport Beach home on Dec. 13, 1983.
Newport Beach police said in a statement that after detectives conducted interviews and collected evidence from Gaskey's home at the time of the murder, they were not able to charge a suspect, leading the case to go cold.
It was reopened in the last few years, police said, and they were able to identify Manatt as a suspect.
It was not clear how police concluded that Manatt was a suspect. A motive was not specified.
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