AURORA, Colo. — Charges were filed earlier this month in the nearly 40-year-old cold case killing of 18-year-old Donna Sue Wayne, whose remains were found in an Aurora field in 1986.

Prosecutors charged Richard “Ricky” Saathoff, 65, with first-degree murder and second-degree kidnapping in her death.

Saathoff is currently serving a life sentence in Canon City for the 1987 Adams County murder and sexual assault of Norma Houston, whose high-energy, blunt-force manner of death is similar to Wayne’s manner of death, according to an affidavit.

Newly-developed forensic evidence, including fingerprints and DNA, led to the new charges in the Wayne case, the court documents state.

Wayne disappeared on June 14, 1986, after attending a party in Aurora, and later went to Shag Nasty's Bar, where she

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