A Wichita man has been arrested in the 1979 slaying of a woman in Weld County, Colorado. James Herman Dye, 64, was booked into the Sedgwick County Jail after Weld County authorities linked him to the death of Evelyn Kay Day, 29.
Day's body was found in her car by co-workers in November of 1979, near the campus of Aims Community College in Greeley, where she worked. Day was beaten, sexually assaulted, and strangled with a belt from her overcoat. Weld County Sheriff Steve Reams said Dye had taken a class at the college.
The case was reopened in May, and DNA evidence linked Dye to the crime. Weld County District Attorney Michael Rourke said Dye faced two murder counts based on whether he intended to kill Day, or killed her during the commission of another felony, specifically sexual assault.
Dye was charged in Colorado with two counts of first-degree murder, and is awaiting extradition from Kansas.
