Kentucky State Police say an arrest made in Fleming County Wednesday is connected to the disappearance of a University of Cincinnati assistant professor.

54-year-old Randy Russ was reported missing by his family in mid-August and police say they have arrested a man who may be involved in that case.

According to 50-year-old Charles Black’s citation, he removed a dead person’s body from his home on Colfax Road in Hillsboro on Aug. 15 and buried it along a river on Ringo Grange City Road. State police say he also disposed of the mattress the victim was on.

State police say Black told them Randy Russ and another man, Kevin Howard, were at his home on Colfax Road on Aug. 15 when Howard asked him to go over to a neighbor’s house. Black said Howard yelled at him to come back about 45 minutes later. That’s when he says he found Russ “gagged and bound at the feet and legs” in a back bedroom of the house. He said Russ was already dead.

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Black says Howard then put the man’s body in the back of Black’s car and the two drove down along Ringos Grange City Road where they dug a grave and placed Russ’ body in it.

Police are still looking for 37-year-old Kevin Howard. If you have any information on his whereabouts, you are asked to call police.

On Wednesday, detectives found location of the grave which they said looked to be freshly dug and had concrete cinder blocks. They said they found a man’s body at the location.

Black is also accused of abandoning the victim’s car on a road and withdrawing $700 from the victim’s bank account.

According to sources, Russ’ car was found in Madison County. KSP did not immediately confirm that information.

Authorities announced at a Thursday afternoon news conference that the uncle of Lloyd Lee Welch is a person of interest in the case of two sisters from Montgomery County, Md., who went missing nearly four decades ago.

Police have identified Richard Allen Welch Sr. as a person of interest. Montgomery County Police Assistant Chief Russ Hamill said Welch Sr. may have been a security guard in the Wheaton area in the 1970s. Police said he is alive and is connected to owning property in the Bedford County area.

Police are asking if anyone has any information about Welch Sr.’s employment during that time to contact them.

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Sheila and Katherine Lyon went missing back on March 25, 1975. They left their home in Kensington and went to Wheaton Plaza for lunch at the Orange Bowl. They were seen at the mall by several people, including their older brother, and were last seen walking down a nearby street.

Earlier this year, Montgomery County police announced they identified a former carnival worker and drifter named Lloyd Lee Welch as a person of interest in this cold case. He is a convicted child sex offender serving time in a Delaware prison.

In September, authorities focused in on Bedford County, Va., and began searching property that was once owned by a relative of Welch on Taylor Mountain Road in Thaxton, which is located between Lynchburg and Roanoke. Authorities also said at the time that they are not only focusing on Welch in this case, but investigators are looking at his entire family as well.

Streets were closed down and large digging equipment were brought in. Montgomery County detectives drove more than four hours to join Bedford County sheriff’s deputies searching for the remains of two little girls.

Hamill said Thursday he thinks “there’s a good chance” the girls are on the mountain.

The commonwealth’s attorney for Bedford County said Thursday he has convened a multi-jurisdictional grand jury that will begin hearing testimony and evidence Friday morning in this case.

Danville police say the third suspect in a robbery and shooting at a Domino’s in Danville last month that left an employee seriously injured has been arrested.

Officials had been looking for 21-year-old Patrick “Pepe” Brand since Thursday morning, after two other suspects were also arrested in the case.

It appears Brand was found in Junction City around 5 p.m. Thursday.

19-year-old Rico Penix and 26-year-old Robin Adams are also charged in connection to the robbery and shooting of employee Zoe Reed at the Domino’s pizza on South Forth Street in Danville in September.

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All three are charged with robbery first degree and assault first degree.

Police say more arrests are possible in this case.

Danville police say Zoe Reed was alone at the business just before 10:30 p.m. on Sept. 15 when the delivery driver was sent on an order to a fake address.

“When the driver came back he found her, and she was still conscious and she asked for help,” said one of Reed’s friends.

Friends said Reed had been shot in the stomach. She was taken to a local hospital and then to University of Kentucky where friends say she had multiple surgeries.

Reed spent her 21st birthday in the hospital fighting for her life.

Last month, Danville police set up a hotline to receive tips after they said they had few clues as to who pulled the trigger. There was no surveillance video from the apparent attempted robbery, although cameras are visible in the store. It appears the cameras were off or not working when the robbery and shooting happened.

The owner of the Domino’s Pizza store said once the business reopened he would make sure all surveillance system was working. He also offered a $2,500 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case.

Danville police, Kentucky State Police and the ATF assisted in serving the arrest warrants Thursday morning.

The Boyle County Sheriff’s office also arrested Seth Frazier, on charges of hindering apprehension, evidence tampering and resisting arrest. Officials determined that Frazier was helping to hide Patrick Brand from police.

State police say they have arrested a man wanted for murder in Fleming County.

According to the citation, 50-year-old Charles Black removed the murder victim’s body from his home on Colfax Road in Hillsboro and burying it on Ringo Grange City Road.

Black was arrested Wednesday.

State police say he also disposed of the mattress the victim was on.

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He’s accused of abandoning the victim’s car on another road and then withdrawing $700 from the victim’s bank account.

He is charged with murder, evidence tampering and theft of more than $500.

Officials say they have arrested two people and continue to look for a third suspect in connection to a Domino’s Pizza robbery and shooting that sent one employee to the hospital with serious injuries.

19-year-old Rico Penix and 26-year-old Robin Adams were arrested Thursday morning in connection to the robbery and shooting of employee Zoe Reed at the Domino’s pizza on South Forth Street in Danville in September.

Penix was picket up at a home on Center Street in Harrodsburg and Adams was arrested at a home on Danville Road in Lancaster. Both are being held in the Boyle/Mercer County jail.

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Officials say they continue to look for a third suspect identified as 21-year-old Patrick “Pepe” Brand of Danville. Brand is described as a black man about 5-foot-11 weighing 165 pounds.

All three are charged with robbery first degree and assault first degree.

Danville police say Zoe Reed was alone at the business just before 10:30 p.m. on Sept. 15 when the delivery driver was sent on an order to a fake address.

“When the driver came back he found her, and she was still conscious and she asked for help,” said one of Reed’s friends.

Friends said Reed had been shot in the stomach. She was taken to a local hospital and then to University of Kentucky where friends say she had multiple surgeries.

Reed spent her 21st birthday in the hospital fighting for her life.

Last month, Danville police set up a hotline to receive tips after they said they had few clues as to who pulled the trigger. There was no surveillance video from the apparent attempted robbery, although cameras are visible in the store. It appears the cameras were off or not working when the robbery and shooting happened.

The owner of the Domino’s Pizza store said once the business reopened he would make sure all surveillance system was working. He also offered a $2,500 reward for information leading to an arrest in the case.

Danville police, Kentucky State Police and the ATF assisted in serving the arrest warrants Thursday morning.

Louisville police say they have arrested a man accused of stabbing a 12-year-old boy in a park.

21-year-old Joseph Cambron has been charged with murdering Ray Etheridge, who was found with wounds to his chest at Cherokee Park in Louisville Tuesday. The boy later died at the hospital.

Police revealed Thursday his injuries were stabbing wounds.

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Police said the boy, his mother and stepfather were homeless and frequented the area. The family was reportedly well-known in the Mid-City Mall area.

Etheridge went to school in southern Indiana, according to police.

Police say a woman who was shot during a standoff in Louisville Wednesday has died.

Police say the seven hour standoff started around 4 p.m. when officers went to serve a warrant on the woman for probation violation at a home on Roaming Plains Court in the Okolona area. Officers say the woman refused to come out, and told them she had a gun and her son inside with her.

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Police called in the SWAT team and a hostage negotiator. Police say after negotiations failed to end the standoff, four officers entered the home around 11 p.m. and at least one of the officers fired at the woman when she pointed a gun at them.

She was taken to the hospital in critical condition and later died.

The baby was not hurt and is now with his father.

Officials have not released the woman’s name.

 Police said the auto burglary occurred at Gold’s Gym at 3617 NW Expressway shortly before the use of the stolen card at Target.

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Anyone with information on the identity of the woman is encouraged to contact Crime Stoppers at 235-7300. Callers can remain anonymous and may be eligible for a cash reward.

Two missing Anoka County 13-year-olds are safe and an adult male is in custody following a frantic search Monday and Tuesday.

Anoka County Sheriff’s spokesman Commander Paul Sommer tweeted the news just before 11:30 a.m. Tuesday that the two girls, who are neighbors in Andover, were found in at a home on the 2400 block of Hayes Court in Burnsville, and that an adult male is now in custody.

The girls were last seen around 7:45 p.m. Monday in the area of 159th Ave and Swallow Street in Andover. Sommer tells KARE 11 that the girls were picked up by a 23-year-old man they had been chatting with on social media. He says that the communications had grown sexual in nature, and shared that the two teens had been chatting with multiple men. Sommer referred to the content of the chats and the situation that unfolded as “every parent’s worst nightmare.”

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It does appear, however, that this is the first time the girls had met someone in person. The suspect is currently being held in the Anoka County Jail. That 23-year-old man is currently a coach for a number of organizations, including East Ridge High School baseball, Cristo Rey Jesuit High School volleyball and Burnsville Traveling Fastpitch, an organization that immediately suspended him.

Concerns about the girls’ disappearance Monday grew significantly after investigators went through computers and devices that the girls use and found social media activity with unknown adult males. As many as a dozen investigators began urgently working the case.

Police say the girls had been chatting with their abductor through social media prior to their disappearance Monday night, and it was by reading those messages that police were able to find them.

Part of the investigation going forward is for authorities to determine if the man had other inappropriate contact with minors.

Anyone who knows anything about this case or any other adults who may have been in contact with these girls is asked to call the Anoka County Sheriff’s Office at (763) 427-1212.