MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 26 (UPI) -- A man imprisoned for an unrelated robbery has confessed to a 37-year-old killing in Minneapolis, officials said Thursday.
The Minneapolis Star Tribune said Michael J. Husten, in prison in Stillwater, Minn., but due to be released on October, confessed last year to killing Roger Haugen in 1975 by hitting him over the head with a stereo receiver. The details were contained in charges filed Monday in Hennepin County District Court.
Back in 1975, the criminal complaint said, police were called to the Hennepin County Medical Center when a man had been left there with a severe head injury he said he had suffered at his apartment. Haugen, 24, died the next day.
The newspaper said Husten, 61, had been a suspect from the beginning, but police lacked evidence until he confessed.
