Law enforcement deserves congratulations on this one.  I wish there were more resources for cold case squads everywhere.  Put yourself in the shoes of a parent who has lost a child.  It’s not clear why police waited for so long.  This guy was a prime suspect from the beginning.

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Jeffery was the prime suspect from the very beginning.

Jeffery was the prime suspect from the very beginning.

A Virginia man has been charged with killing a camp counselor who was sexually assaulted and shot once in the head while on a hike in the Poconos 18 years ago, authorities said Friday.

Jeffrey J. Plishka, 46, of Onley, Va., was arrested in the 1991 murder of Laura Ronning, a 24-year-old from St. Petersburg, Fla., said Wayne County District Attorney Michael Lehutsky.

Ronning was working at Camp Cayuga near Honesdale when she disappeared on July 27, 1991, while taking a walk to Tanner’s Falls, a nearby waterfall. Her partially clad body was discovered the next morning.

Authorities became suspicious of Plishka shortly after Ronning’s body was found, but it was not until an interview earlier this year that investigators were confident enough to make an arrest, Lehutsky said.

During the interview, Plishka denied doing anything to Ronning, but twice told police, “I hope I didn’t kill that girl,” according to court documents. He also asked the investigators what he should do if he later remembered he had done something.

Plishka was charged with first-, second- and third-degree murder and attempted involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and was being held in Accomack County Jail while awaiting extradition proceedings…