Investigators say crime lab improvements aided arrest of Alabama man in 24-year-old Georgia murder

 A 63-year-old man has been arrested in Alabama in the 2000 murder of a northwest Georgia woman.

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation and the Walker County Sheriff’s Office announced on Friday that they have charged Clerance D. George with murder and aggravated assault in the June 2000 death of Julie Ann McDonald.

McDonald, a pharmacist, was found stabbed to death in her home in LaFayette, Georgia, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Chattanooga.