Cold Case Arrest

Indiana murder suspect arrested twenty years after allegedly killing boy and stepmom.

Michael Jerome James, 35, has been arrested in Shelbyville, Indiana, after 20 years on the run. He is accused of murdering a boy and stepmom when he was a teenager, Chynna Dickus, and Blake Dickus. The victims were found stabbed to death in their Franklin home in 2006. James, who would have been 14 at the time of the killings, will be tried as an adult due to the evidence linking him to the double murders. The motive for the killings remains unclear. The arrest came after the reward for information on the killings was increased to $100,000.

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