It was November of last year, when detectives traveled from Dayton to Alabama to talk with Tommy Swint, a former probationary police officer in Trotwood. Police said he moved out of state sometime after he became a "person of interest" in the disappearance of Richmond's Nikki McCown. She has never been found.
But this time, officers were there to talk to him about another case, the 1991 murder of Tina Ivery.
Ken Betz, of the Montgomery County Crime Lab said, "They asked for his fingerprints, asked for a blood sample for DNA, and he cooperated."
Officials said that evidence led to Swint's indictment Wednesday for Ivery's murder. Authorities said he left blood and fingerprints at the murder scene on Dayton-Liberty Road all those years ago. "There was blood at the scene on the victim and there was material on tape we had in this case that had fingerprints on the tape," said Betz.
Swint shot and killed himself Wednesday as officers arrived to arrest him on the murder indictment in the Ivery case.
Around the same time that Tina Ivery was murdered, two other women were killed under very similar circumstances. Now, detectives have confirmed they will be looking at the possibility that Swint could be connected to those murders too.
Betz said, "I would say the investigators from cold case, Montgomery County Sheriff's office are indeed going to look at the files and see what may and I use that word causiously, may attribute him to those cases."
Investigators are also waiting for the results of a search warrant carried out in Swint's Alabama home Wednesday night.