DNA evidence links San Quentin inmate to 1992 murder

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. Santa Barbara police used D-N-A evidence to solve a 1992 murder _ and arrested a man already in custody.

Forty-three-year-old Gregory Egan Edwards was arrested at San Quentin State Prison, where he was being held on a theft-related offense.

The Santa Cruz man is now a suspect in the murder of 27-year-old Korrina Dee Nicholas, a mother of five.

He will be arraigned next week.

Nicholas' partially nude body was found under a tree by hikers July 17th, 1992, near the Douglas Preserve. She had a rope wrapped tightly around her neck.

Police used D-N-A technology to match Edwards with evidence from the crime. They said the crime might be drug-related.