Osteopath charged with 1982 killing

CAPE MAY COURTHOUSE, N.J., Dec. 20 (UPI) -- An Ohio osteopath's hard-drinking past caught up with him, and he is now facing charges in a 1982 killing in New Jersey.

Dr. George Carty waived extradition after his arrest Tuesday, The Atlantic City Press reported. He was expected to appear in court Thursday in Cape May County.

Carty was a cook when he allegedly killed John Attenborough of North Cape May. The two men had worked together at the Wildwood Golf and Country Club until Attenborough was fired the year before.

Robert Keating, now the club's general manager, worked with both men. He said both were heavy drinkers and Attenborough would sometimes become offensive when he was drunk.

Carty eventually became a nurse, moved to Virginia and graduated from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine in 2005. Keating said he ran into Carty shortly before he left the state, and Carty told him he had stopped drinking.

"He seemed like a different person. It seemed he had his life together," Keating said.