Missouri man charged in 1966 killing in suburban Chicago, based on DNA evidence

Published May 4, 2024 9:42 AM

CREVE COEUR, Mo. (AP) — A 79-year-old Missouri man is accused of killing a woman in her suburban Chicago home — a crime that happened nearly six decades ago. James Barbier was arrested Monday at his St. Louis County home and charged with first-degree murder in the November 1966 death of 18-year-old Karen Snider in Cook County, Illinois. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the break came when police reopened the cold case and sent blood evidence to a lab in 2022. The blood matched Barbier’s. Snider’s husband came home late on the night of Nov. 12, 1966, and found his wife stabbed to death.

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