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BREAKING NEWS TONIGHT.
POLICE IN CALIFORNIA ARRESTED A
SUSPECT IN THE COLD CASE MURDER
OF A MAN FROM BUTLER COUNTY.
HE MOVED TO CALIFORNIA AFTER HE
GRADUATED FROM BUTLER HIGH
SCHOOL.
HE WAS REPORTED MISSING THREE
YEARS AGO IN LONG BEACH.
HIS REMAINS WERE FOUND SIX
MONTHS LATER AND TODAY POLICE
ARRESTED THE ALLEGED KILLER.
JENNIFER BORRASSO IS LIVE WITH
DETAILS.
JENNIFER?
Reporter: WELL, JUST A SHORT
TIME AGO I TALKED TO HIS FATHER
WHO SAID TODAY'S ARREST IS A
HUGE RELIEF.
HE SAID THAT HIS SON NEARLY
THREE YEARS AGO ATTENDED A
PARTY, WENT INTO DISTRESS AND
WAS LEFT TO DIE.
NOW, HERE IS WHAT WE KNOW.
LONG BEACH DETECTIVES, THEY SAY
THEY ARRESTED A MAN FOR THE
MURDER, HE WAS 31 AT THE TIME,
POLICE ARE STILL INVESTIGATING
THE MOTIVE BUT SAID THEY HAD A
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP.
THEY DIDN'T ELABORATE FURTHER.
HE SAID HIS SON MOVED TO
CALIFORNIA AFTER GRADUATING IN
OCTOBER 2017.
THE POLICE DEPARTMENT GOT A
MISSING PERSON'S REPORT FOR
KENNEDY.
DETECTIVES LEARNED HE WAS LAST
SEEN AT LEO'S HOME AND THEY HAD
INFORMATION HE WAS BURIED ON
THE PROPERTY.
IN MAY OF 2018 DETECTIVES GOT A
SEARCH WARRANT.
THEY EXCAVATED THE PROPERTY AND
FOUND WHAT THEY BELIEVED TO BE
HUMAN ARRESTS.
HIS DAD TOLD US HIS SON WAS HIS
WORLD.
VERY EMOTIONAL.
YOU KNOW, MUCH JOY FOR ME.
STILL SAD.
I WILL NEVER HAVE MY SON BACK
BUT AT LEAST NOW I CAN SEEK
JUSTICE FOR HIM.
HE WENT IN DISTRESS THROUGHOUT
THE NIGHT AND WAS LEFT TO DIE
AND THEN BURIED IN THE BACKYARD
THE FOLLOWING DAY.
Reporter: AND JEFF SAID HIS
SON DREAMED OF LIVING IN
CALIFORNIA.
HE LEFT AT AGE 22 WITH $13 IN
HIS POCKET AND NEVER LOOKED
BACK.
