Rape kits from two women lead to arrest in 1979 murder of one of them

After over 40 years, authorities have arrested a suspect in the murder of a woman at a South Lake Tahoe campground in 1979, CBS Sacramento reports.

Harold W. Carpenter, 63, was arrested after investigators found a DNA match for an unrelated crime in Washington state. He's being held without bond in the Spokane County Jail on a fugitive charge, pending extradition to California on a murder warrant, the El Dorado County D.A.'s office said in a statement.

Patricia Carnahan was discovered strangled, beaten, and left for dead in September 1979, and despite gathering evidence including a sexual assault kit that provided a DNA sample, no suspects were arrested in connection with her death.