The 63 -year -old man who was charged almost 40 years after the murder after the body of the missing teenager was found on her birthday, says the police

Scott County, Miss. (WLBT/Gray News) – According to civil servants, an arrest was made in Mississippi in the decades of murder of a youthful girl.

The authorities said they had taken the 63-year-old Rubin for the kidnapping and murder of Shondra May on Tuesday.

Wee had lived in a motorhome park in Madison County, Mississippi, when the sheriff of Scott County, Mike Lee, appeared with a caravan of other law enforcement officers.

Lee said the weeks had fished the weeks before his arrest. Weeks asked his wheelchair to get to the patrol car that brought him to prison.

Officials said Weeks were charged with kidnapping, rape and murder because of the 1986 crime, which shook the small town of Wald.

At that time May was a 17-year-old senior at the Leake Academy. She was on the way home and worked in a McDonald's restaurant when someone managed to stop her car shortly before making it into her entrance.

May's body was found three weeks later on her 18th birthday in a brook in Hinds County near Bolton.

Michael Frazier is one of the retired investigators who were in the case. He was profiled by WLBT a few years ago.

Frazier said, networking and find people who are ready to talk, contributed to making the case.

“[It] led us to actually find three witnesses that were present, “he said.” So we were able to get a lot of information. It's like it just fallen together. I just have to say that it was God, brother. “

May's brother Tim Tim, who was 18 when she disappeared, said that he had spent the past four decades waiting for the day when a suspicious one would be arrested. Unfortunately, he said her parents would not have lived to see it.

“When Sheriff Mike Lee was elected, he promised the people in Scott County and our family that he would solve this murder,” said Tim May. “And he kept his promise well. There were a few people who helped him keep his promise well.”

Officials said this was the first time that someone was charged in this case. They also said that weeks of similar crimes have been in the past.

According to reports, he confessed to kidnapping an employee in a motel in which Weeks and his family lived in Missouri in 1991 before raping her and she banded with band.

The employee survived and said against weeks, which led to a lifelong prison sentence for him.

This case caused Mississippi's authorities to bring him back to the state to interview, but they did not have enough evidence to accuse him of the murder of Shondra May at that time.

The sheriff said years of cooperation and investigative know-how necessary to lead to this arrest and that the work has not yet been done.

“If someone is out there who is involved in this case and you feel like this just because we have made an arrest, it is not certain,” said Lee. “If you are out there, we'll bring you in.”

Now another kind of waiting begins because Rubin Weeks leads through the judicial system.

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