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BOISE, Idaho — A former candidate for Idaho governor says he鈥檚 under investigation in connection with the 1984 killing of a 12-year-old Colorado girl.

Steve Pankey, who ran as a Constitution Party candidate for governor in 2014 and again as a Republican in the 2018 primary, this week that he鈥檚 under investigation in the death of Jonelle Matthews, a Greeley girl who was reported missing on Dec. 20, 1984.

Pankey says he talked to the newspaper because he wants to be transparent. He says he鈥檚 given law enforcement his DNA and offered to take a polygraph test, and was shocked when authorities searched his Twin Falls, Idaho home last week.

Matthews鈥� remains were found by a construction crew earlier this summer in a rural part of Weld County, Colorado.

Information from: Idaho Statesman, http://www.idahostatesman.com