Ella Mae Dicks, 47, was arrested Saturday after she gave Georgia investigators details of the crime and led them to another person who was living in Illinois.
John Jeffers was sentenced to a 30-year prison term in the death of 23-year-old Sherry Gibson, who investigators say was abducted at gunpoint by a man and a woman from her boyfriend's car in March 1975. She was raped and stabbed to death, and her body was found hours later in a burning farmhouse in Monroe City.
Her boyfriend, Lindy Alton, was forced into the trunk of his car, and survived. He died in a house fire about three years ago.
Jeffers, who was 15 at the time of the slaying, had a history of mental problems and pleaded guilty to the crime in 1978. He died in prison in 1983.
Sergeant Todd Ringle of the Indiana State Police said 47-year-old Ella Mae Dicks of Toccoa, Georgia, gave Georgia investigators details of the crime and led them to another person who was living in Illinois.
The grand jury indicted Dicks yesterday, and police arrested her at a Vincennes motel. She was being held today without bond in the Knox County Jail.
The grand jury also indicted a man. Police declined to identify him until he is arrested.
John Sievers, prosecutor in neighboring Knox County, said Dicks and her accomplice once were residents of the Petersburg area in Pike County.
Sievers would not release details about any evidence, but said investigators evaluated Dicks' statements and other evidence before taking the case to the grand jury.
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