SOUTH BRONX — The decades-old murder of a Claremont mother has been solved, after DNA resubmitted to the medical examiner pointed investigators to the victim's ex, police said.
The suspect, Jonathan Jolivert, 46, was arrested on Feb. 13 in Carmel, N.Y. for the 1993 murder of 21-year-old Michelle Page, the mother of Jolivert's child.
Members of the NYPD's Cold Case and Apprehension Squad identified Jolivert as the suspect by resubmitting evidence that they recovered from the scene to the Medical Examiner's office for DNA testing.
On March 24, 1993, Page was found by police in a hallway at 1225 Morris Ave. in the 44th Precinct, where she lived, with a knife sticking out of her neck and a scarf wrapped around her neck as well. Officials pronounced her dead at the scene.
Jolivert lives in Brooklyn, and it was unclear what he was doing in Carmel, police said.
He had been arrested more than 20 times between 2007 and 2014 for assault, grand larceny, harassment and criminal possession of stolen property, police said.
Jolivert was ordered held without bail on Saturday and is represented by attorney Harry Forman, who declined to comment on the case.
