Florida man arrested nearly four decades following cold case murder in California
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Donald Santini had been on the run since June 1984, when he was linked to the strangling death of 33-year-old Cynthia Ruth Wood. He was arrested on Wednesday, June 7 in California.
The arrest warrant said a medical examiner determined she had been strangled and Santini's fingerprints were found on her body, the Tampa Bay Times reported. Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a writer on the breaking news team for Fox News Digital. You can reach her on Twitter at @s_rumpfwhitten.
According to police, Wood was the last person seen leaving the 33-year-old's residence in 1984. On June 9, 1984, police discovered Ruth's corpse.
"The suspect has not been seen since this incident and may be in the state of Texas using an unknown identity," the sheriff’s office notes in an "Unsolved Homicides" page, noting that Santini was a suspect in the 39-year-old cold case.