Detectives have made an arrest in the 1980 killing of a Sacramento mother after years of struggling with evidence, police say. Helen Terry was found stabbed to death in her Wyndham Drive apartment back on Aug.

An arrest has been made for a murder case that had been unsolved for more than four decades, according to the Police Department. Helen Terry was found dead with stab wounds in her apartment on Aug. 28,

A man was arrested on suspicion of homicide in the stabbing death of a Sacramento woman found dead in August 1980 with her child as the sole witness, the Sacramento Police Department said Wednesday. Helen Terry was stabbed to death Aug.

The victim's family is now trying to find closure years after their loved one's death. “She was very kind, very loving. That’s why we can’t even imagine something like that even happening to her — totally uncalled for,

John Mays talks about his sister Helen Terry, who was stabbed to death in 1980, after the arraignment of Robert Terry on Oct. 3, 2024, in Sacramento Superior Court. The defendant was accused of fatally stabbing Helen Terry 13 times after new information was uncovered in the cold case from “advanced investigative methods.