Texas man arrested for 1999 homicide in Macon County | Crime

MONTGOMERY (WSFA) - A 39-year-old man from Amarillo, Texas was arrested Tuesday in connection with an unsolved homicide from 1999 in Macon County.

Gary Lee Poisel Jr. is in The Randall County Detention Facility in Amarillo, awaiting extradition.

The Alabama Bureau of Investigation, which is part of the Alabama Department of Public Safety, obtained warrants for murder and robbery in the first degree for the killing 12 years ago of Petaluma, Calif., truck driver Robert Nelson, whose body was found July 2, 1999, off Interstate 85 North in Macon County.

The Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, Macon County Sheriff's Office and the 5th Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office played an important role in Poisel's arrest, and the ABI extends its gratitude.

The Alabama Department of Public Safety worked with the Texas Department of Public Safety to make the arrest.