<p>FORT WORTH, Texas — Prosecutors in Texas said Thursday that they wouldn’t seek the death penalty for a 78-year-old man arrested last year and accused of the 1974 abduction and slaying of a teen girl.</p>
<p>The Tarrant County district attorney’s office has submitted documents seeking life imprisonment for Glen McCurley, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/fort-worth-arrests-archive-texas-crime-0803244daf3a55b0a20df86e08219469">arrested in September </a> on a capital murder charge in the slaying of 17-year-old Carla Walker.</p>
<p>District Attorney Sharen Wilson said they determined “justice would best be served” by a sentence ensuring McCurley “will spend the rest of his days in prison.”</p>
<p>Walker’s family supported the decision, she said.</p>
<p>Police had said the Fort Worth high school student was with her boyfriend in a car outside a bowling alley after a Valentine’s Day dance on Feb. 17, 1974, when a man pistol-whipped the boy and abducted her. Searchers found her sexually assaulted and strangled to death three days later near a lake near where she had been abducted, prosecutors said.</p>
<p>McCurley’s attorney, Steve Miears, told the <a href="https://www.star-telegram.com/article251209329.html">Fort Worth Star-Telegram</a>: “We are continuing our investigation of the case.” </p>
<p>The case had gone unsolved for 46 years before investigators reopened it in 2019. Police linked it to McCurley through advancements in DNA technology.</p>
<p>McCurley is jailed on a $500,000 bond while awaiting trial.</p>
