Man charged with killing 21-year-old South Florida woman in 1983

Man charged with killing 21-year-old South Florida woman in 1983

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. – A man who had long been considered a person of interest in the killing of a 21-year-old South Florida woman has been arrested after 38 years, officials said.

Ralph Williams, 59, was arrested Monday in Jacksonville and charged with the death of Carla Lowe, whose beaten body was found Nov. 13, 1983, on a roadside, Delray Beach police said Tuesday.

Lowe had last been seen waiting for a train at an Amtrak station in Delray Beach, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported.

Detectives said they searched the area for hours but never found anyone who had seen or heard anything suspicious.

The same day her body was found, Delray Beach police arrested Williams on grand theft auto an...

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