Arrest 30 years after killing

Los Angeles: A man charged with bludgeoning and strangling to death a Hollywood television director more than three decades ago was arrested yesterday in North Carolina after police said DNA and a confession linked him to the crime.

Edwin Hiatt was arrested in Burke County for the 1985 death of Barry Crane in Los Angeles. He has been charged with murder in California and will be returned there, Los Angeles police said.

Crane directed episodes of hit 1970s and ’80s television shows such as The Incredible Hulk, Hawaii 5O and The Six Million Dollar Man. He was associate producer for Mannix and Mission: Impossible .—AP