Murder charges for Canadian man accused of strangling N.J. woman in 1997

A Canadian man has been charged with murder after a cold case breakthrough. He is suspected of killing a lady in 1997 in New Jersey and disposing of her remains along a gravel road in Somerset County.

At a news conference, Somerset County Assistant Prosecutor Michael McLaughlin said that Robert Alan Creter, 60, of Winnipeg, was extradited to New Jersey on November 26, over 27 years after Tamara Tammy Tignor’s body was discovered in Bridgewater.

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