Oct 17, 2013 2 min read

CLEVELAND (AP) – A Cleveland man was indicted by a grand jury Thursday on charges in the 1994 slaying of a 30-year-old woman after new information recently surfaced in the disappearance of another young woman.

Elias Acevedo faces four counts of aggravated murder, 173 counts of rape, 115 counts of kidnapping and one count of gross sexual imposition, Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy McGinty said.

The 49-year-old Acevedo is accused in the death of his neighbor, Pamela Pemberton, in October 1994, and of another woman called “Jane Doe” in 1995.

An attorney who represents Acevedo in a separate case said Thursday that he has not been assigned to him in this case and could not comment.

Prosecutors said they believe Acevedo is linked to the 1995 disappearance of Christina Adkins, who was 18 and pregnant when she vanished.

An FBI evidence team last week discovered human remains not far from where Pemberton’s body was found. An identification card belonging to Adkins was found nearby, and the medical examiner’s office is working to determine if the remains are those of Adkins.

Acevedo, a convicted sex offender, also has been indicted in a separate case as a result of a rape kit that was recently tested from a 1993 case, McGinty said.

Authorities have re-examined the disappearances of other women in Cleveland, following the discovery of three women held captive for a decade in a Cleveland home.

“This should send a message to other sex offenders that you can run, but you cannot hide; and as a promise kept to survivors and their families, we will never forget, nor will we ever give up,” McGinty said in a written statement.