Man arrested for 1990s cold case murder of 85-year-old neighbor

• Randall Joseph Gall, 66, was arrested in Oregon for the 1994 murder of his neighbor, Veta Hardebeck.
• Gall, who lived on an adjacent property at the time, has been charged with second-degree murder and is held without bail.
• Hardebeck was found dead in February 1994; initially believed to be an accident, an autopsy later confirmed she was murdered.
• The cold case was reopened last July with a grant, and recent advances in forensic DNA technology led investigators to Gall.
• Hardebeck's daughter, Caroline Ledbury, previously recalled finding her mother's body and believed she was severely beaten before the scene was staged to look like an accident.

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Three decades after an 85-year-old woman was found murdered in her Oregon home, police arrested her neighbor