A California man has been arrested in the decades-old killings of five of his infant children.
The case began when an infant's body was found in 2007 by a fisherman in a Northern California irrigation slough.
The Yolo County Sheriff's Office says 57-year-old Paul Perez, of Delano, was arrested in the deaths of his children born between 1992 and 2001.
The remains of three of them have not been found.
The sheriff said the case has haunted his agency for years, and authorities used new DNA techniques to locate a relative.
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