A former deputy attorney general of Nevada who was tied up with the infamous Mustang Ranch brothel has been arrested in the brutal murder of a teenage girl 50 years ago in Hawaii.
Tudor Chirilla Jr., 77, was arrested in Reno and charged with second-degree murder after DNA evidence linked him to the fatal stabbing of 19-year-old Nancy Anderson in 1972.
Anderson — who had moved to the island state after graduating high school in Michigan a year earlier — was stabbed more than 60 times inside his Waikiki apartment on January 7, 1972, police said.
Even after half a century, the local police never gave up in finding her killer.
Investigators re-opened the cold case several times and investigated several suspects over the years. They questioned the door-to-door knife salesman who had approached Anderson a few hours before her murder, as well as her ex-boyfriend and the property manager of her apartment building.

The salesman voluntarily gave his fingerprints which did not match and passed the polygraph test. The other suspects also proved to be dead-ends.
According to the criminal complaint, investigators finally got a solid lead this year after receiving a tip in December that Chirilla might be a suspect.
Police were able to confirm him as the prime suspect in March after obtaining a DNA sample from his son, John Chirilla, of Newport Beach, California. The criminal complaint said the sample identified Chhote Chirilla as the biological child of a man whose DNA was found at the crime scene.
Last week, Reno police executed a search warrant and collected a DNA sample directly from the Tudor Chirilla at his Reno apartment.
Two days later, on September 8, Chirilla attempted suicide and on Wednesday, he was arrested and booked into the county jail in Reno, where he is being held without bail on charges of being a fugitive from another state. .
Chirilla, a longtime attorney in the Reno, Carson City and Lake Tahoe area, served as deputy attorney general after Anderson’s assassination in the late 1970s. He ran for the Nevada Supreme Court in 1994, but was defeated.
The murder charge is not the lawyer’s first time with the law outside his profession.

In a 1998 federal indictment, US prosecutors in Reno identified him as the former chairman of AGE Corp., a company that served as a front for Nevada brothel owner Joe Confort.
The indictment accuses Confort and others of being part of an elaborate conspiracy to defraud the government in bankruptcy proceedings, when the Mustang Ranch brothel east of Reno was confiscated by the IRS, sold for back tax in 1990. was and was illegally repurchased by Confort and his accomplices.
The government claimed that Confort hid his assets during bankruptcy proceedings to defraud the government and buy back the legal brothel under the disguised ownership of AGE Corp.
Chirilla testified as a government witness and admitted that he knew the corporation was owned and controlled by Confort, which disappeared – likely South America – when the case went to trial in 1999.
post with wires