A man was arrested on suspicion of homicide in the stabbing death of a Sacramento woman found dead in August 1980 with her child as the sole witness, the Sacramento Police Department said Wednesday.

Detectives have made an arrest in the 1980 killing of a Sacramento mother after years of struggling with evidence, police say. Helen Terry was found stabbed to death in her Wyndham Drive apartment back on Aug.

A man has been arrested in connection with a 1980 Sacramento homicide, the Sacramento Police Department said. According to police, Helen Terry was found stabbed to death in her apartment on Wyndham Drive on August 28,

Robert Lee Terry, 81, was first identified as a suspect through DNA evidence in 2016. The Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office later filed a murder charge.