DNA from saliva collected on a sidewalk led to the arrest of a Massachusetts man in connection with the 1988 murder of Karen Taylor, officers said.

A man who spit on the sidewalk outside of his home in Boston is now charged with an unsolved 35-year-old murder.

A Suffolk County grand jury indicted James Holloman, of Dorchester, for murdering Karen Taylor, 25, in her Roxbury apartment 36 years ago. He pleaded not guilty to a charge of first-degree murder