Authorities arrest Los Angeles man in 1984 slaying in Northern California

A 59-year-old man was arrested in Los Angeles and charged with murder in a brutal 1984 slaying in the Sacramento Valley.

The Placer County district attorney’s office announced this week that 59-year-old Richard Raymond Moore had been apprehended and charged with the murder of 69-year-old Madeline Garcia.

In 1984, Garcia was attacked, dragged into the alley and killed in the 300 block of Atlantic Street in Roseville, according to the district attorney's office.

A decades-long investigation led authorities to Moore in Los Angeles. On June 27, Moore was arrested by Los Angeles Police Department officers and FBI agents, and taken to Placer County.

Moore has pleaded not guilty and is being held in jail without bail. He is expected to appear in court July 22.

This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times .