Cold Case Solved: 40-Year-Old Double Homicide Arrest | JQJO

Forty years after the murder and sexual assault of two teenagers in Burney, California, police have arrested 64-year-old Roger Neil Schmidt Sr. in Tucson, Arizona. In December 1984, 18-year-old Terrance Arndt was shot and killed while protecting a female companion who was then sexually assaulted. Advances in forensic genetic genealogy linked Schmidt, who lived in Burney at the time, to the crime. His DNA matched evidence from the case, leading to his arrest and charges of murder and sexual assault. Schmidt is awaiting extradition to Shasta County.