By Marlene Lenthang For Dailymail.com
Published: 14:23 GMT, 20 February 2019 | Updated: 15:25 GMT, 20 February 2019
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Cops have arrested a suspect in the murder of an 11-year-old Southern California girl, making a major break in the nearly 50-year-old case.
Newport Beach Police announced on Tuesday evening they made a breakthrough in the murder of Linda Ann O'Keefe, who disappeared on July 6, 1973, and arrested an unidentified suspect.
Sources say that police arrested a male suspect in Colorado Springs, Colorado on Monday in her death, according to ABC News.
Police gave no further details beyond the arrest and will hold a press conference Wednesday morning.
Police have arrested a man in the decades-old murder case of 11-year-old California girl Linda Ann O'Keefe whose body was found strangled to death on July 6, 1973
A male suspect in Colorado Springs, Colorado was arrested on Monday in her death. A DNA-generated image of what her killer might have looked like 1973 above
The case went cold for decades then on July 7, 2018 - exactly 45 years after she was found - cops released images based on DNA of the suspected killer showing what he might have looked like in 1973 and what he'd look like now
'As the Orange County
