A Colorado inmate has been charged with stabbing a woman to death near a southwest Missouri motel about 28 years ago, when he was a trucker passing through the area.
Charges of second-degree murder and armed criminal action were filed against Richard Walker on Thursday in Green County Circuit Court in Missouri after Springfield, Mo., police reviewed the cold case and re-interviewed him in prison last week.
At the time of the 1982 crime, Walker ran from officers who spotted him near where 22-year-old Angela Baskin was stabbed. Baskin died a few hours later at a hospital.
Police said Walker denied knowing anything about the killing, and there wasn’t enough evidence to charge him at that time. Walker has been in prison since 2000 for first- degree sexual assault.
