Phoenix police arrest suspect in their oldest cold case dating back nearly 40 years - Lachelle ‘Shelly’ Jeannine Waite was found dead at 18 in 1986

PHOENIX — The Phoenix Police Department has made an arrest in a decades-old cold case out of Maryvale. On Thursday, authorities announced that 70-year-old Alfred Earl Green has been arrested for the 1986 murder of 18-year-old Lachelle "Shelly" Waite.

The Phoenix Police Department arrested a suspect in its oldest cold case for the murder of an 18-year-old woman.

Thirty-nine years after the murder of 18-year-old Lachelle “Shelly” Waite, a suspect is under arrest. On Feb. 20, while serving a sentence on an unrelated case, Alfred Earl Green,70,

Shelly Waite was strangled to death in her home in 1986 now Phoenix police believe they have found her killer.

There has been a huge break in a murder case that happened nearly four decades ago, as Phoenix Police announce an arrest in the case.