Police in Ohio say a decades-old murder case from 1985 has been solved after investigators tied a suspect to evidence recovered behind a Cracker Barrel restaurant in Georgia. According to reports, the victim was a traveling salesman, and the killing occurred at a hotel. Investigators later identified items connected to the case that had been found not long after the death, located behind the Cracker Barrel about 400 miles away from Ohio. Those items remained part of the case as it continued for more than 40 years. CBS News reports that Ohio authorities used the older evidence—retrieved from the Georgia location shortly after the 1985 murder—to connect the case to an Ohio man. The New York Post similarly describes the solution as resulting from the suspect being linked to the evidence discovered behind the restaurant. Both outlets describe the breakthrough as based on tying the suspect to the previously recovered items, leading law enforcement to close the long-running cold case. Authorities do not indicate in the cited reports when charges are filed or the outcome of any court proceedings.