East Hartford police have arrested a suspect in the 1973 murder of a 21-year-old woman.

Police have arrested 77-year-old George Legere and said he is the suspect in the brutal murder of 21-year-old Janet Couture in October 1973.

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Couture was found stabbed to death in her Cannon Road home in East Hartford on Oct. 13, 1973.

Police said she was home alone when Legere broke in through a window and killed her.

They have continued the investigation for over five decades.

Police said Legere had also been an early suspect in Couture’s murder but there was insufficient evidence at that time and a major breakthrough came in 2021 when the Avon Police Department arrested Legere who was suspected of kidnapping a woman in a s

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