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Arrest could solve 1986 murder of Riverside woman

One summer night in 1986, Nancy Klinger left her three children with a babysitter and never returned.

She was off to see a man she'd met tending bar in Riverside.

"I was so angry and hurt," recalled Denise Raulston, her oldest daughter, then 6. "I thought she abandoned us."

After their mother left, Raulston and her younger brothers were sent to foster homes where she was subjected to years of abuse before a new family adopted her at 11.

Even when Klinger's skeletal remains were found in a dirt-and-rock field in 1988, there was still no closure.

It was only this week -- when San Bernardino County sheriff's detectives arrested the man Klinger met that night -- that some wounds could begin to heal.

"I've finally got some peace, you know?" said Raulston, now 30 and raising a 3-year-old daughter in Corrigan, Texas. "I was abused in every possible way. That man took a lot. He took my childhood."

Larry Thomas Hite, 53, was arrested Tuesday at the Riverside mobile home he shared with his brother, and charged Wednesday with murder.

Detectives said the twice-convicted rapist confessed to killing his then-28-year-old date.

The suspect, who relocated to Riverside following his release from an Arizona prison, is expected to be arraigned this morning at San Bernardino County Superior Court. He is being jailed in lieu of $1 million bail.

His arrest comes four months after sheriff's cold case detectives Greg Myler and Rob Alexander formally reopened Klinger's homicide. Before that, Hite had always been a focus.

"He was always, in my mind, a real person of interest," said sheriff's Capt. Mike Howell, who investigated the original missing person case in 1986. "Nancy Klinger was a 28-year-old mother of three who was responsible, showed up to work on time, and took care of her kids.

"It always seemed strange to me that she would all of a sudden up and take off with some guy."

Earlier this year, Howell contacted John Thomas, the San Bernardino County deputy district attorney who specializes in cold cases. He urged the prosecutor and the detectives to give Hite another look.

"We felt that Larry Hite was in fact a suspect like the other investigators had believed," said Myler. "So we started piecing the whole case back together, going over all the old statements."

They learned that Klinger met Hite at Mary's, a bar on Arlington Avenue in Riverside. They'd been out only a few times when she dropped her kids off with a babysitter on Aug. 29, 1986 to meet him for another date.

He worked as a security guard at the time, and took her to the Vagabond Bar.

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