ROELAND PARK, Kan. — Prosecutors in suburban Kansas City, Kansas, have filed charges against a man in the fatal stabbing 36 years ago of another man.
The Kansas City Star says prosecutors announced the developments in the cold case Tuesday, charging 65-year-old Geter Rhymes with first-degree murder in the 1985 stabbing death of 29-year-old Gary Watson. Watson’s body was found on March 13, 1985, in his apartment in Roeland Park. Police at the time said three men were seen entering Watson’s apartment about two hours before his body was discovered. Police conducted more than 200 interviews in the case.
Johnson County Sheriff’s crime scene investigator Kate Meyer said advances in testing allowed investigators to reanalyze evidence collected from the 1985 scene and make the arrest.
