Suspect in 1984 murder to be returned to Boston today

By Globe Staff

Sultan Omar Chezulu, the Georgia man who allegedly committed a 1984 murder in Boston, has waived rendition proceedings in Georgia and is expected to be returned to Boston this afternoon, the Suffolk District Attorney's office said today.

Chezulu, 60, who changed his name from Robert L. Scott for what police said were religious reasons, is facing charges in the December 1984 slaying of 18-year-old Elsie "Yolanda" Hernandez. Chezulu is expected to be arraigned tomorrow in Roxbury District Court.

For nearly 24 years, it appeared that the man who raped, brutally beat, and strangled Hernandez had gotten away with murder. But police and prosecutors said yesterday that they had found her killer through DNA left at the scene, the Globe reports today.

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