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A woman was killed while hitchhiking in 1974. Now, cops say they arrested her killer

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Mary K Schlais , 24 , was stabbed to death on February 15, 1974 when she was hitchhiking from Minneapolis to Chicago for an art show.

Now, five decades later , the Dunn County Sheriff’s Office arrested Jon Keith Miller , 84 , for her homicide.

Investigators found Miller from genetic evidence — a hair found on a hat — left at the crime scene.

Miller confessed that he had picked up the young hitchhiker and asked for sexual contact.

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