Convicted sex offender is arrested for 1983 murder of Iranian-born Nebraska University student after victim s friend pleaded with police to reopen the cold case and examine DNA evidence with advanced technology
Authorities have arrested a convicted sex offender in the 1983 death of Firozeh Dehghanpour, an exchange student at University of Nebraska at Omaha
Bud Leroy Christensen, 67, is awaiting extradition on a first-degree murder charge
He is listed on the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry as a lifetime offender with at least three sex crime convictions
Due to his the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry as a lifetime offender, he is required to submit his DNA sample due of a Nebraska state law passed in 1997