Police arrested a McCreary County man after they connected the suspect to the 1994 disappearance of a parent of a UK student.
Porter Morrow, Jr., 27, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with the murder of Michael Hall, who was reported missing since Aug. 15, 1994.
On Tuesday, the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government in conjunction with the U.S. Forestry Service and the McCreary County Sheriff's Office found what they believe are Hall's skeletal remains.
Porter, who had been found with Hall's car in his possession a year ago by police, was arrested the same day.
Police said Hall came to Lexington from Madison County on Aug. 12 to visit his daughter, who was a UK student. They said he checked into a motel on Winchester Road that night. The next morning, police said witnesses saw an unidentified male drive away the next day in Hall's automobile.
It was found in Morrow's possession three days later.
Police obtained an arrest warrant Tuesday after the skeletal remains were found. Morrow was taken into custody and returned to Lexington on Tuesday. He is currently being held in the Fayette County Detention center under a $250,000 full cash bond.
Investigators have sent the remains to the Kentucky Medical Examiner's Office for a positive identification of the remains, which were found in a remote section of the Big South Fork National River and Recreation Area located in McCreary County.