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Input: The attack back in 1986 was brutal, so much so that the killer grabbed a second kitchen knife, after his frenzied thrusts into the 75-year-old victim bent the first one sideways. 
  
 After stabbing Richard Finney 31 times in an Escondido apartment, the assailant made off with about $300 and some rather unusual items, including a robe, a mustache trimmer and bars of soap. 
  
 Decades later, technology — starting with high-quality photography and fingerprints from the slaying scene — brought a break to the cold case. On Monday, Escondido police Chief Craig Carter announced that a now-62-year-old man has been arrested and charged with Finney’s slaying. 
  
 Nathan Eugene Mathis, who was 31 at the time of the killing, pleaded not guilty last week to one count of murder and an allegation that he used a knife in the attack. Mathis faces 26 years to life if convicted, and he remains jailed in lieu of $3 million bail. 
  
 courtesy Escondido police Nathan Eugene Mathis has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder in the 1986 stabbing death of Escondido resident Richard Finney. The 75-year-old victim was found stabbed to death in his apartment. Nathan Eugene Mathis has pleaded not guilty to one count of murder in the 1986 stabbing death of Escondido resident Richard Finney. The 75-year-old victim was found stabbed to death in his apartment. (courtesy Escondido police) 
  
 The name of his defense attorney was not immediately available Monday afternoon. 
  
 Last week, police arrested the retired security guard at his Ontario apartment, where he lived with his wife and two grandchildren. 
  
 Escondido police said Mathis had lived in North County at the time of the attack, but would not say if there was any connection between the two men. 
  
 Carter said the arrest marks the Police Department’s longest stretch between the date that a crime happened and the arrest of a suspect. 
  
 On the morning of Nov. 13, 1986, a home health-care worker found Finney, a retired traveling salesman, dead in his first-floor, low-income apartment on East Mission Avenue near North Juniper Street. 
  
 The scene yielded what looked to be valuable clues, including fingerprints and bloody handprint. But it would be decades before science caught up to the evidence. 
  
 In 2007, a cold case investigator delved into the case and arranged for the DNA and palm-print evidence to be run through databases. The prints yielded nothing, but authorities learned something new: DNA showed the blood was a mixture of two people — the victim and, presumably, his killer. However, the DNA database turned up no hits. 
  
 The following year, detectives ran a familial DNA search, in hopes of getting a hit on a close relative of the suspected killer. Again, nothing. 
  
 In 2011, the department brought the cold case to the public, asking for help and offering a reward. Still nothing. 
  
 In 2016, the department’s forensics team took high-quality photos of fingerprints on a bathroom faucet knob taken 30 years earlier from Finney’s apartment. 
  
 The more detailed photo, coupled with advances in fingerprint comparison databases, led investigators to Mathis’ name, the department said. Investigators then ran Mathis’ DNA — they won’t say how they obtained it — and it was a match to the profile in the palm print. 
  
 Finney’s daughter and son have since died, but his grandchildren are grateful for the arrest. The call last week from Escondido police went to maternal granddaughter Gina Turi Curry, who answered the phone at her mother’s Orange County home when police first called 31 years ago, when she was just 18 years old. 
  
 “I was shocked out of my mind,” Curry, now 49, said of last week’s call. “I was surprised at how emotional I was. …I just burst into tears.” 
  
 Curry said the investigators, including the cold case team, were “phenomenal.” 
  
 “We always knew they were doing all they can,” she said. “I just cannot believe that after all of these years, they arrested a suspect.” 
  
 She remembers her grandfather “as a charming man, always had a quick wit. Just a lovely man.” She said she wants to know why he was killed, and why the attack was so violent. 
  
 Curry said she and her older sister, Catherine Turi Hollis, attended Mathis’ arraignment on Friday. They wanted to be there for their mother and for their grandfather. 
  
 teri.figueroa@sduniontribune.com 
  
 (760) 529-4945 
  
 Twitter: @TeriFigueroaUT ||||| ESCONDIDO, Calif. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a suspect in the stabbing death of a 75-year-old retiree more than three decades ago in Southern California. 
  
 Police in Escondido say technology led to new analysis of fingerprints from the apartment where Richard Finney was stabbed 31 times in 1986. 
  
 The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Monday that Nathan Eugene Mathis faces a charge of murder and an allegation that he used a knife in the attack. The 62-year-old retired security guard pleaded not guilty last week. 
  
 Investigators haven't named a possible motive or said whether the defendant and the victim knew each other. 
  
 Gina Turi Curry, Finney's granddaughter, tells the newspaper she burst into tears when police informed her of the arrest. 
  
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 Information from: The San Diego Union-Tribune, http://www.utsandiego.com |||||
Output:
Richard Finney died a brutal death in 1986, one so violent that his murderer bent the first kitchen knife he was using to stab 75-year-old Finney and had to get a second, reports the San Diego Union-Tribune. Now, authorities have arrested a suspect in the stabbing death more than three decades ago in Southern California, reports the AP. The Union-Tribune reported Monday that Nathan Eugene Mathis faces a charge of murder and an allegation that he used a knife in the attack. The 62-year-old retired security guard pleaded not guilty last week. Police in Escondido say technology led to new analysis of fingerprints from the apartment where Finney was stabbed 31 times in 1986. Investigators haven't named a possible motive or said whether the defendant and the victim knew each other. "I was shocked out of my mind," Gina Turi Curry, Finney's granddaughter, 49, said of the police call. "We always knew they were doing all they can. I just cannot believe that after all of these years, they arrested a suspect."