ERIE — State law enforcement credit new witness statements that led to an arrest in a 24-year-old cold case homicide in Erie County.

David Heck, 50, of Brazil, Indiana, who formerly lived in Erie, is charged with the kidnapping, rape and murder of Sabrina Kahler, who was 20 years old when she went missing on June 24, 2002.

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