A 64-year-old man serving a life sentence in prison has been charged with murder in a 1989 homicide in Forestville, Prince George’s police said.

       James Clinton Cole faces first-degree murder, first-degree rape and related charges in the rape and killing of Cynthia Rodgers, 27, of Forestville, Md. He is in custody in Cumberland, Md., police said.

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       On Jan. 27, 1989, Rodgers was found raped, beaten and strangled in a wooded area in the 6000 block of Surrey Square Lane Service Road in the Forestville area, police said. More than three decades later, cold-case detectives retested evidence and matched Cole through his DNA, police said.

       Police said Cole and Rodgers did not know each other.

       In 2009, Cole’s DNA was matched in a 1996 child rape case in Charles County, which he was convicted of, police said.