Updated: 7:17 AM EDT May 3, 2021
Jury selection is expected to begin Monday for the trial of a Seminole County man arrested in a 1984 cold case murder.Thomas Garner was arrested in 2019 for the murder of Pamela Cahanes.Cahanes, 25, was found strangled west of Sanford in August 1984. She had just graduated from Navy boot camp. Garner went to the Naval Training Center in Orlando during the same time as Cahanes.At the time of her death, authorities had evidence that included DNA that was found under Cahanes' fingernails.More DNA was found at the scene, but authorities at the time were unable to find out whom it belonged to.Advances in DNA research allowed investigators to build a DNA family tree that led them to Garner, her former Navy classmate.Jury selection should begin at 9 a.m.