ORLANDO, Fla. – A Georgia man accused of killing a Florida woman in 1997 has denied involvement, but detectives said a bloody fingerprint and other evidence tied him to the crime.Jimmy Lee Mahone, 51, was transferred from the Bibb County, Georgia, jail to Orlando on Tuesday.
He was arrested last month in Georgia in the killing of Donna Byrd, 42, the Orlando Sentinel reported.The arrest came after Orange County Sheriff's officials reopened the case in September, and the Automated Fingerprint Identification System found four prints matching Mahone.Deputies noted that Mahone was arrested on drug charges three days after Byrd's death about four blocks from the apartment she was killed, the newspaper reported.Byrd's body was found in the vacant.