LICKING COUNTY, Ohio (WSYX) — For 36 years, the brutal murder of 71-year-old Helen Stuart has haunted her family and the community. Now, new court documents have revealed that Delbert Saunders Jr. has been charged with aggravated murder, murder, aggravated burglary, kidnapping, and rape in connection with her death.

"I wake up 2, 3 o'clock in the morning and think about what she went through. It doesn't get any better," Murray Stuart, Helen's son, said in an interview with WSYX in 2010.

On April 21, 1989, an Ohio Department of Transportation worker found the body of 71-year-old Helen Stuart in the back seat of an abandoned car on Ohio 16, east of Ohio 668 in Hanover Township in Licking County, Ohio.

Murray Stuart recalled the last time he saw his mother. "She had called me and asked me

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