(Radio Iowa) – Iowa City police say new technology has led to an arrest in a 1992 cold case death. The body of a baby boy was found in the Iowa City Landfill in 1992. Investigators say they had little information to identify the mother at the time and the case went cold. The case was reopened in October 2020 and evidence was resubmitted for advanced D-N-A testing. Investigators say the testing led them to 58-year-old Cindy Sue Elder, formerly Cindy Sue Eckrich.

Elder was found in Clever, Missouri in 2022. She was 26 years old in 1992 and admitted to giving birth to the baby and then putting it into a plastic bag and into a garbage can. Elder has been charged with first-degree murder.