LONGMONT, Colo.—Fresh interviews and physical evidence have led to an arrest in a 1999 Boulder County murder case.
Longmont police say a cold case investigation led them to 456-year-old Abel Lujan. Lujan is serving a four-year sentence for an assault in Morgan County.
He faces charges of first-degree murder in the 1999 strangulation death of 30-year-old Bernadine “Bernie” Frost. Frost was found dead in Longmont on April 22, 1999.
The Times-Call reports that Lujan was her boyfriend when she died and was named a person of interest (). Investigators were unable to produce enough physical evidence or witness testimony for an arrest.
Longmont police reopened the Frosh investigation in 2011, doing fresh interviews and submitting physical evidence for DNA analysis. Boulder District Attorney’s Office then issued a warrant.
