CEDAR FALLS — A man who disappeared while on parole for a 1986 murder in Nebraska has been arrested near Cedar Falls.
Black Hawk County sheriff’s deputies detained 63-year-old Peter Wade Suffredini on Sunday night at mile marker 221 of U.S. Highway 20 near the Grundy County line. Authorities said his car went into the median, and a passerby called authorities.
When officers from Black Hawk and Grundy counties arrived, they found Suffredini in his vehicle, and he was taken into custody without incident.
The Nebraska Department of Corrections has Suffredini listed as “absconded” from parole for charges of second-degree murder and robbery. He had been serving 30 years to life and was released to parole in August.
According to court records, Suffredini was 25 years old when he shot Samuel S. Coker, a 24-year-old construction worker, five times at an Interstate Highway 80 rest area near Sutherland, Nebraska, in April 1986.
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Investigators traced a Honda Civic reported stolen in San Francisco that left the rest area and found it parked at a North Platte hotel where Suffredini was staying. Investigators found blood on his shoes and a .22-caliber handgun with blood on it in the room.
He pleaded guilty as part of an agreement to avoid Nebraska’s electric chair.