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TOWSON, Maryland ( WBAL ) -- Detectives arrested the estranged husband of a woman at the center of a 1994 cold case homicide, Baltimore County police announced Friday.

Linda May Lester, 31, was last seen alive on Oct. 11, 1994, when she left work as a 911 dispatcher in Towson and headed to the Randallstown house of her estranged husband, Donald Lester, to pick up her 2-year-old child, county police said. The victim's sister reported her missing the next day.

Court documents indicate a friend usually followed Linda Lester to Donald Lester's house because he had a violent temper and was abusive. On the day of Linda Lester's disappearance, the friend was delayed, documents state.

At the time, Donald and Linda Lester were going through a divorce and l

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