Man charged in 2005 murder of Ottawa woman in Arizona

Police in Arizona luxuriate in arrested a person in connection with the murder of an Ottawa woman that took blueprint 17 years within the past.

Stacy Childs, 60, used to be arrested on April 26 and charged with 2d-diploma murder within the loss of life of Barbara Kalow, who used to be found dull in her Lake Havasu City, Arizona, motel room on April 5, 2005.

Kalow, 45 at the time and a veterinary science adviser with the Canadian Meals Inspection Agency, had travelled to Lake Havasu City to see the desolate tract cacti bloom. She used to be staying at the Windsor Inn Motel, the build her body used to be found by a housekeeper. An autopsy published that she died of asphyxiation after being smothered by a pillow. No other weapons had been indicate within the room and the pillow, in line with Lake Havasu City police, used to be missing. Kalow’s purse, credit playing cards, mobile phone, identification and rented PT Cruiser had been additionally missing. The stolen car used to be found three days later, abandoned along Interstate 15 in California, about 300 km from the crime scene.

The Lake Havasu City police arrested Childs, a Santa Cruz, California resident, with the help of the Santa Cruz Police Department.

Per Lake Havasu police Sgt. Tyler Tribolet, the department’s frigid case squad and its prison investigations unit began reinvestigating the case in 2018. DNA evidence found at the scene of the crime linked Childs to Kalow’s murder. Childs is being extradited to Arizona.