LAPEER CO. -- The Lapeer County Sheriff’s Department believes it has solved a brutal homicide of an 86-year old woman.

In October of 2006, the body of Mrs. Marie Warren was killed at her home on White Road in Deerfield Township, and her body was dumped on Five Lakes Road.  Horseback riders found her body, and notified authorities.

Lapeer County residents issued a $50,000 to find the killer. Now, about five years later, the sheriff believes they’ve found the person responsible.

“It was terrible. I had been sheriff here for 31 years and to see an elderly lady, stripped, beaten to death, then of course the amputation of her fingers, and then to be dumped in a ditch a few miles away, I think it's the worse crime I've ever seen,” said Lapeer County Sheriff Ron Kalanquin.

DNA testing led crime experts to a 42-year-old Sandusky, Michigan man. He’s been arrested, and is jailed pending arraignment. 

The arraignment is scheduled for Thursday at 1:30 p.m. at the 71st District Court in Lapeer.

The suspect's name will be released once the judge has performed the arraignment.