Story Published:
Mar 29, 2008 at 1:03 AM CDT
Story Updated:
Mar 31, 2008 at 10:59 AM CDT
SALEM, Mo. -- A man from Beaufort is charged for the 1982 murder of a woman from Dent County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says Donald Nash, 65, was arrested Friday and charged for the murder of Judy Spencer, 21, his girlfriend at the time.
Investigators say they opened the cold case nearly a year ago, retesting DNA found under Spencer's fingernails. Court records show investigators believe the DNA could not have been transferred during casual contact but was from a physical struggle of some kind.
Spencer was living in Salem when her body was found strangled and shot in the neck in rural Dent County in March 1982.
Nash is being held in the Dent County jail without bond.
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News release:
Captain Luke Vislay, director of the Division of Drug and Crime Control, announces the arrest of Donald R. Nash, 65, of Beaufort, Missouri, for the murder of Judy Spencer.
Spencer was living in Salem, Missouri, when her body was discovered murdered in rural Dent County in March 1982. Investigators from the Missouri State Highway Patrol and the Dent County Sheriff’s Office arrested Nash today at approximately 12:10 p.m. Nash is currently being held in the Dent County Jail without bond.
