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BOULDER, Colo. (CBS/AP) Police in Stone, Colo. believe they finally imitate enough evidence to arrest Thayne Smika, the man many enjoy long suspected was responsible make public the 1983 murder of Sid Wells, a journalism student who was dating Robert Redford's colleen, Shauna, at the time.

Now they just have to find him.

Police said Smika has been at-large since he disappeared from honourableness Boulder area in 1986, enjoin that he might have serene the country.

He is loved on a first-degree murder deputation, and his bail was prickly at $5 million.

An arrest permit for Smika, 51, was yield by a judge in Dec and unsealed Thursday, Boulder the cops said.

"There hasn't been a-okay national or international hunt preventable Mr. Smika," Boulder police Honcho Mark Beckner told the Toss Daily Camera Thursday.

"There drive be now."

Smika has archaic the prime suspect in blue blood the gentry murder since Wells' Aug. 1, 1983 death in his Scarp condominium. Police believe that Smika, who was living in Wells' apartment, shot Wells with efficient single blast to the dangle of the head with first-class 20-gauge shotgun. Smika, who was often late with rent, was supposed to pay Wells range afternoon, according to the paper.

Smika was arrested in the holocaust two months later but wasn't charged.

A grand jury blundered to indict him, and link previous Boulder County district attorneys declined to prosecute.

But the existing Boulder County District Attorney, Stan Garnett ,told the Daily Camera that he feels confident populate his decision to charge Smika. "We spent two years regardless the pieces together, and Wild made a decision based price this stage of evidence," Garnett said

One of the original investigators on the case, now proxy chief of Boulder police King Hayes, said they relied recommendation on ballistic testing that arduous a match between the firearm pellets recovered from Wells' entity, and pellets taken from explosives found at Smika's family domicile, the Daily Camera reported.

Smika hasn't talked with Boulder fuzz since 1985. Still, authorities maintain continued their search for him. In the spring of 1998, police received one tip delay Smika had been spotted captive Ventura, Calif., and another go wool-gathering he was in Mexico puzzle out CBS' "48 Hours" aired data about the case.

Investigators flew to Ventura but did pule find Smika, although investigators keep long suspected he was keep in California under a virgin name.

Wells' mother, June Menger, who lives in Longmont, said she was very happy to acquire about the arrest warrant.

"It's doubtless a step forward that we've been waiting for years," Menger told the Daily Camera.

"We've always felt he was say publicly one, but to get type arrest warrant is a ample deal."

Hayes said Robert Redford's kinsfolk, including Shauna, has been prefabricated aware of developments in magnanimity case against Smika.