WMBF News reports that HORRY COUNTY, SC (WMBF) - An 11-year-old cold-case murder in Pennsylvania has a new suspect, thanks in part to Horry County police.
Members of the department’s Violent Criminal Apprehension Team arrested Betty Jane Adams, 60, in the Myrtle Beach area on May 18 in connection with the 2015 killing of Middlesex Township, Pennsylvania, man John Alleman, 68.
Adams was previously known as Betty Jane Brooks.
NBC affiliate WGAL reported that Alleman’s death was initially ruled a suicide.
First responders found Alleman dead in his bed with a gunshot wound to the head on May 1, 2015, after a call came in shortly before 7 a.m.
An autopsy later ruled the death a homicide.