Police charged a 61-year-old man with murder 30 years after he allegedly abducted and killed a 12-year-old girl after she got off a Florida school bus, officials said Thursday.

Jeffrey Norman Crum, 61, is accused of kidnapping, sexually assaulting and murdering 12-year-old Jennifer Odom, who vanished after getting off a school bus in 1993.

A break in the case happened in 2015, when investigators used DNA analysis to narrow down Crum as a suspect in a different case that happened about 13 months before Odom’s killing, the sheriff said.

Jennifer Odom, 12, ... Jeffrey Norman Crum was arrested and charged with the Odom's murder, according to Nienhuis. I'm confident that we have the right person and the right aggravators.

More than 30 years after Jennifer Odom was killed, ... Jeffrey Norman Crum, 61, was identified as the suspect after biological evidence tested in February 2015 gave detectives a DNA profile.

Jennifer Odom is pictured in a family photo. Hernando County Sheriff Al Nienhuis announced Thursday that a grand jury has indicted Jeffrey Norman Crum, 61, on kidnapping, rape and murder charges ...

Records illuminate the parallel investigations that yielded Jeffrey Norman Crum as a suspect in a Pasco rape and the 1993 Hernando County cold case.

Crum, a convicted sex offender, was already in prison on a life sentence for two counts of sexual battery with a weapon or force for a 1992 incident involving a 17-year-old girl. Investigators noticed ...

Jeffrey Crum, 61, was arrested for murder 30 years after 12-year-old Jennifer Odom was found dead in an abandoned Hernando County orange grove in 1993, deputies say. Skip Navigation.

Jennifer Odom went missing in 1993 after she got off a school bus. She was found dead in a Florida orange grove not long after. Now a DNA match has identified her killer as Jeffrey Norman Crum.