LAKE WALES, Fla. (WFLA) — Authorities arrested a man in connection with a double homicide from 1985 on Friday.

According to a news release, detectives from the Lake Wales Police Department along with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the United states Marshals Service arrested Troy Adam Thorn, 62, for the brutal murders of Harvey and Margaret Bolser that took place 40 years ago.

The release said that the Bolser's owned an apartment complex in Lake Wales called Swan Apartments, located at 241 E. Seminole Avenue. They had rented one of their units to Thorne and Samuel Edward Jones, 65.

On Feb. 28, 1985, police found the Bolsers murdered inside Thorne and Jones apartment which had also been set on fire. The two men were missing and considered suspects in their landlords murder.

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