Police charge Pennsylvania inmate, 61, in 1981 slaying
PERRYOPOLIS (AP) – Police say a Pennsylvania prison inmate killed a neighbor in a case that went unsolved for decades.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review said 61-year-old David Eugene Lint was charged Monday with criminal homicide, abuse of a corpse and evidence tampering.
He’s charged with shooting to death 34-year-old Charles Edward “Mississippi” Johnson in July 1981, burning his body and burying his remains.
The online court docket doesn’t list a lawyer for Lint. He’s in state prison on unrelated charges.
State police say they began investigating Lint in connection with Johnson’s disappearance in 1982, after hearing Lint had bragged to family members he’d killed a man named Mississippi.
Lint and Johnson had lived next to each other in the village of Adelaide, in Fayette County.
Police say Johnson’s remains haven’t been recovered.