How to Watch: Authorities and family of Mary Schlais discuss 1974 murder charges

MENOMONIE, Wis. – Officials plan to provide another update the following Monday a break last week in a 50-year-old murder case in Wisconsin, this time involving a member of the victim’s family.

Authorities on Thursday charged Jon Miller, 84, of Owatonna, Minnesota, with first-degree murder Maria Schlais. Schlais was hitchhiking from Minneapolis to Chicago when she was found dead in Dunn County, Wisconsin on February 15, 1974.

The Dunn County Sheriff’s Office said it will hold a news conference at 1 p.m. Monday with a representative from Schlais’ family as well as someone from Ramapo College, whose genetics lab helped lead police to Miller.

Here’s how to watch

• What: Authorities report the 1974 murder of Mary Schlais and accuse Jon Miller
• Where: Dunn County Sheriff’s Office, Menomonie, Wisconsin.
• When: Monday, November 11th, 1 p.m
• Regard: You can watch live on CBS News Minnesota, on Pluto TV or in the player above

Decades after the murder, authorities linked the DNA profile of a hair found at the crime scene to Miller through relatives. According to a criminal complaint, Miller admitted to stabbing Schlais and dumping her body in a snowbank in Spring Brook.

Miller is in custody in Minnesota awaiting extradition to Wisconsin.