Cold cases

OGDEN — A man wanted in Ogden in connection with the 1993 murder of a 92-year-old woman was arrested Wednesday afternoon in Alaska.

OGDEN — Idaho inmate Gregory Seamons will likely have difficulty blocking extradition to Weber County to stand trial in the 1983 rape and slaying of 11-year-old Rebecca Lemberger, says a lawyer.

“There are very narrow legal arguments he can raise,” said Idaho Deputy Attorney General Bill Loomis. “It’s pretty hard in these types of cases to be successful to stop extradition. His (Seamons’) argument about the case needs to be made in Utah and not in Idaho.”

Seamons has told an Idaho judge he will fight extradition because a DNA sample taken from him in 2011 by Ogden police at the Valley County Jail in Idaho was done in dirty conditions.

OGDEN — An arraignment hearing for Idaho inmate Gregory L. Seamons that was to take place today in Boise for the 1983 rape and slaying of 11-year-old Rebecca Lemberger of Ogden has been postponed because of a judge’s scheduling conflict.

The new date for the hearing at the Idaho Correctional Center will be April 2.

OGDEN — The head of the Utah State Crime Lab says it would be almost impossible for a father’s DNA to be confused with that of his son.

Jay Henry said lab policies prohibit him from commenting directly on his lab’s DNA testing, which police say has tied Greg Seamons to the murder and rape of an 11-year-old Ogden girl in 1983.

So he couldn’t speak directly about Seamons’ claim in a letter to The Salt Lake Tribune that his late father likely committed the crime.

OGDEN — Idaho inmate Gregory L. Seamons, named by Ogden police as the prime suspect in the 1983 abduction, rape and homicide of 11-year-old Rebecca Lemberger, has portrayed himself online as an artist fond of drawing delicate pictures of peacocks, hearts and butterflies.

Until last week, Seamons’ sketches were available for sale on the Fine Art America website, www.fineartamerica.com, which helps artists market their work.

However, soon after being charged Sept. 28 by Weber County prosecutors with rape and first-degree murder in the cold-case slaying of Lemberger, his photo, autobiography and sketches were removed from the site.

OGDEN — From his cell at the Idaho State Correctional Institution, Gregory L. Seamons wrote last month to an Ogden woman about soon being paroled after being in prison for second-degree kidnapping since 2007.

The neatly penned two-page letter makes no mention that he had already been interviewed by Ogden detectives, who, through DNA evidence, were closing in on him as the prime suspect in the 1983 abduction and slaying of 11-year-old Rebecca Lemberger.

“My parole date was for July 5 but I went past that date because I had three classes to complete,” Seamons wrote Sept. 18 to the woman, who has been corresponding with him for more than two decades and asked not to be identified. “I graduated (from) the last one today so I should be out in 14 days or so.”

However, the Idaho Department of Correction website indicates Seamons’ last parole hearing was in March and that he is scheduled to complete his sentence in December 2017.