BEAUFORT, S.C. —

Authorities this past week announced the arrest of a 76-year-old man in the 1987 killing of Margit Schuller , a 34-year-old mother found shot outside a laundromat near her home at the Palmetto Apartments.

Beaufort County Sheriff P.J. Tanner on Wednesday said Cortez Sabino Lake, a former Navy corpsman stationed at Parris Island, who lived in the same apartment complex at the time, was arrested Tuesday and charged with murder. Lake is being held pending a bond hearing.

Schuller was last seen between 8:15 and 8:45 a.m. on Nov. 1, 1987, folding clothes inside the complex laundromat. Her 12-year-old daughter later found her under a tree outside. Investigators determined Schuller had been shot inside the laundromat and crawled outside. A second blood trail leaving the scene

See Full Page