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Cigarette butt helps Washington police hunt 1980 murder suspect across country: ‘I was hooked in this case’
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A cigarette butt helped investigators track down an Arkansas man accused of murdering a woman in Washington state in 1980 after the case went cold.
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Kent detectives and Van Buren County Sheriff's deputies arrested Kenneth Duane Kundert, 65, Aug. 20 at his home near Clinton, Arkansas. He has been charged with first-degree murder.
The arrest brings to a close almost 45 years of searching for a suspect.
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