Albuquerque police charge suspect in decades-old cold case

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque police have charged a suspect in the death of a University of New Mexico student who was stabbed near campus more than 30 years ago. The Albuquerque Journal reported Thursday that 53-year-old Paul Apocada was charged with murder after he confessed to the killing of Althea Oakeley in July 1988. The newspaper says he was charged at the detention center where he had been held since last month on a probation violation. Police planned to provide more details on the case on what would have been Oakeley’s 55th birthday Thursday. But they postponed a news conference after three Albuquerque officers were shot while responding to a robbery.