Tipster helps Florida cold case detectives crack a woman's murder 21 years ago
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Twenty-one years after 35-year-old Thelma Storrs, left, was found murdered in Lee County, Fla., Luis Nieves, 52 was charged with the homicide after cold case detectives said they recently received a tip in the case. (Lee County Sheriff's Office)
Florida cold case detectives say a tip has led to the arrest of a homeless man in the unsolved murder of a woman 21 years ago.
Luis Nieves, 52, was booked into the Lee County Jail Friday night on a charge of murder in the death of 35-year-old Thelma Storrs in 1998.
A tipster recently told detectives the identity of a possible suspect, according to a news release from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office, announcing Nieves' arrest.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}An investigation ensued and led to Nieves’ arrest.
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“This arrest also serves as a reminder that it is never too late to come forward with information,” Sheriff Carmine Marceno said. “Cold-blooded killers will not walk free in Lee County.”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Nieves has four prior arrests for domestic violence in 2007, 2014 and 2016, online court records show. The records show him living at a Fort Myers address at the time of the arrests.
Investigators said Storrs’ body was found in a pasture near Fort Myers on March 17, 1998. She had been reported missing two weeks earlier.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Her fingerprints taken from a prostitution arrest three months before her murder helped authorities identify the body, the Fort Myers News-Press reported at the time.
Friends at that time told the paper Storrs drifted into prostitution after becoming a crack addict.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"She really got going down the wrong track a few years ago," one friend was quoted as saying. "It was really hard to watch.”