A 78-year-old man has been charged in the murder of a University of Texas Austin nursing student who was found fatally shot in an alley 40 years ago, a day after she enrolled in the school, Austin Police announced Friday .

Deck Brewer Jr., 78, who is already serving time in Massachusetts for an unrelated crime, is now accused of killing 25-year-old Susan Leigh Wolfe after modern forensics matched his DNA with that found on the victim, authorities said.

Wolfe was kidnapped a block away from her home while walking to a friends house at around 10 p.m. on Jan. 9, 1980, police said. She had enrolled at the University of Texas Austin School of Nursing that same day.