Tim Hack and Kelly Drew

Tim Hack and Kelly Drew are words that have haunted their small southeastern Wisconsin community for nearly three decades: "Kidnapped and Slain." Hack was a farmer who drove a tractor nicknamed "The Lonesome Loser." Drew had just graduated from beauty school. Both 19, no one doubted they'd one day be married. But two months after they vanished from an Aug. 9, 1980, wedding reception, searchers found the high school sweethearts' decomposed bodies in the countryside only a few miles from the reception hall, setting off a nearly 30-year whodunit with few leads.

Until now. On Thursday, Wisconsin investigators armed with a DNA match arrested a 76-year-old in Louisville, Ky., who had been a handyman at the reception site. Prosecutors have charged Edward W. Edwards with two counts of first-degree murder. He faces life in prison if convicted. District Attorney Susan V. Happ declined to comment on what led investigators back to Edwards, saying only that new evidence had emerged since he was first questioned in 1980.

Drew's mother, Norma Walker, said she was shocked to hear the news from Jefferson County Sheriff Paul Milbrath. But instead of closure, the arrest has only ripped open old wounds, said Walker, now 70. She doesn't want to hear details and is dreading a trial."You hope this day would come, but now that it's here, it's really hard. Everything starts all over again. All the memories come back," she said. "He robbed me of my daughter, robbed me of Christmases, birthdays, weddings, everything families do together."