Updated: 1:30 PM EDT May 6, 2021 Chelsea Robinson Digital Media Manager Officials said Thursday that a man had been arrested in the cold case slaying of a University of Nebraska at Omaha student. Firozeh Dehghanpour was found dead in August 1983. Dehghanpour, thought to be 24 years old, was an Iranian national in the United States on a student visa. She was about to graduate with a double major when she died.BELOW: News coverage from sister station KETV after Dehghanpour was found dead in 1983Her nude body was found north of Council Bluffs, Iowa, under a bridge. Her throat had been slashed. An autopsy led investigators to believe she had died somewhere different from where she was found. Bud Christensen, 67, has been taken into custody for the killing. Officials stated that Christensen was arrested April 30. He waived extradition Tuesday, was transported to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, Wednesday and had his initial appearance in court Thursday morning.
Pottawattamie Co. authorities provide update on arrest in 1983 death of UNO student from Iran
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COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa. (AP and KMTV) â Authorities have arrested a 67-year-old registered sex offender from Nebraska in the 1983 slaying of an Iranian exchange student. Bud Leroy Christensen is being held in the Douglas County Jail in Omaha awaiting transfer to the Pottawattamie County jail in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on a first-degree murder charge.
He is a suspect in the death of Firozeh Dehghanpour, whose body was found on Aug. 14, 1983, under a bridge north of Council Bluffs.
2021/05/06 06:55 OMAHA, Neb. (AP) Authorities have arrested a sex offender in the death of an Iranian exchange student who was attending the University of Nebraska at Omaha when she was killed in 1983. Bud Leroy Christensen, 67, was awaiting extradition from Nebraska to the Pottawatomie County Jail in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on a first-degree murder charge, The Omaha World-Herald reported. During a court hearing Tuesday, he waived his right to fight extradition. Fishermen found the body of Firozeh Dehghanpour, who was in her mid-20s, on Aug. 14, 1983, under a bridge north of Council Bluffs. An autopsy determined she bled to death from several cuts.
Pottawattamie County sheriff s deputies had said Dehghanpour died elsewhere and that she was not sexually attacked.
âEverything about this young woman was grand,â a friend of Firozeh Dehghanpour said. âShe was destined for wonderful things in her life. She was the best.â
Omaha police detectives at the time suspected that Dehghanpour had been killed by someone she knew because her personal belongings and papers were with her body. If she d been grabbed off the street, Officer Gregory Thompson said at the time, you d think she would have dropped all that stuff.
Investigators tested blood and hair found on the bridge railing and crime scene. They determined that some of the blood wasn t Dehghanpour s, but the hair was hers.Â
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