Suspect charged four decades after Pennsylvania teen found dead: "40 long years"

A Pennsylvania man has been charged with murder and kidnapping more than 40 years after an 18-year-old woman was killed, prosecutors announced Friday.  

Investigators had long suspected two men named in the announcement Friday had played a role in the death of Denise Marie Pierson, who was reported missing in April 1981 after she failed to return home from visiting a friend in Marcus Hook. Her body was found in July 1984 near the railroad tracks in Marcus Hook about 300 yards from the home of one of those suspects.

Wayne Anthony Walker, 58, was charged Thursday with multiple counts of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy. It was unclear from court records if Walker, who was being held at the county jail on unrelated assault charges, had an attorney.