A retired LAPD detective long suspected in the fatal beating of his wife in 2006 has been arrested for the killing. 

The LA Times reports: 

Dan DeJarnette, 59, was taken into custody without incident Monday night at his home on the Big Island in connection with the slaying of his wife, Yu Dejarnette.

He said at the time of her November 2006 death that he had awakened  and found her lying on a lava embankment about 20 feet from the couple’s home in Ka’u on the southern end of island. She suffered severe head trauma and was later pronounced dead at a hospital.

DeJarnette told patrol officers his 56-year-old wife had been hurt in an accident. But an autopsy determined she died from head trauma, and the retired officer was booked on suspicion of murder — and then released because of lack of evidence.

Hawaii police looked at the case anew in January and DeJarnette was indicted by a grand jury.