Virginia State Police announced on Sunday an arrest has been made in the cold-case investigation of the 1998 murder of Sylena Jo Dalton in Strasburg.

Daniel Edward Pompell, 56, of Culpeper, was arrested and charged with one count of murder, according to a news release issued Sunday afternoon.

Agents with the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigations, Culpeper Field Office, took Pompell into custody without incident, the release states. The arrest marks a major step in the 27-year investigation, the release states.

Pompell is being held without bond at Rappahannock-Shenandoah-Warren Regional Jail.

On July 27, 1998, a friend found Sylena Jo Dalton, 20, of Strasburg, stabbed to death inside her apartment in Strasburg, according to police. Dalton’s 10-week-old daughter, Allys

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