A man who spit on the sidewalk outside of his home in Boston is now charged with an unsolved 35-year-old murder.

He was arrested that afternoon and pleaded not guilty to a charge of first-degree murder Friday morning in Suffolk Superior Court. Investigators say they found Holloman’s paycheck next to Taylor’s body as well as DNA evidence of an unknown male who they say they matched to Holloman just last year.

Prosecutors said DNA technology helped investigators crack the cold case and charge a suspect in Karen Taylor's 1988 stabbing death.

Forensic evidence found on fingernail scrapings from a woman slain in her Boston apartment ultimately led to the murder indictment this week of James Holloman, who is now charged in her death.