Brute, 54, arrested 21 years after rape and murder of woman, 19, as DNA ties him to two other sexual assaults

A MAN has been charged in connection with the rape and murder of a 19-year-old woman in Ohio more than two decades ago.

Kenneth Marshall, 54, was arrested outside his home in on Friday after linked him to the killing of Chrishana Logan and on two other women.

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Logan's body was discovered in her apartment in , on April 15 2000.

An autopsy conducted at the time found that she had been raped and strangled.

In August of that year, a 17-year-old was abducted and raped as she walked across a parking lot.

Then that October, a 13-year-old girl was abducted as she stood at a bus stop and was also raped.

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The three attacks were linked by DNA analysis in 2005, but no suspect was identified.

On January 4 of this year, Marshall's DNA was matched to that recovered from the crime scenes after it was entered into the Combined DNA Index System, the criminal justice DNA database.

A sample had been taken following Marshall's arrest for criminal confinement causing serious bodily injury in Lake County, Indiana, in November.

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An indictment charging Marshall on counts of aggravated murder, murder, felonious assault, and rape was unsealed on Friday, on Friday.

Following his arrest, Marshall was reportedly questioned by officers from the Cold Case Task Force.

He is now awaiting extradition back to Ohio.