BOSTON, June 30, 2016—The former Boston resident accused of murdering Dora Brimage almost 30 years ago will likely face arraignment Thursday in Suffolk Superior Court, District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

JAMES PAIGE (D.O.B. 3/28/66) has waived rendition proceedings in connection with last week’s indictment charging him with first-degree murder in Brimage’s 1987 strangulation. He is currently in custody on unrelated charges in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, where Boston Police detectives will take custody of him tomorrow.

Paige will be transported to Boston for booking and processing in advance of his arraignment Thursday morning in the Magistrate Session of Suffolk Superior Court.

Brimage was found badly beaten, sexually assaulted, and strangled to death in a vacant Warren Street storefront on the morning of Sept. 7, 1987. After biological evidence was tested under a federal grant for cold case investigations, Boston Police detectives uploaded a DNA profile from that evidence to a nationwide DNA database in 2014. That profile matched Paige’s, which was submitted after a felony conviction.

The match led to a renewed investigation by the homicide units of the Suffolk DA’s office and Boston Police Department and a June 27 indictment by the Suffolk County Grand Jury.

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