After Suspect Caught 28 Years Later, Daughter Remembers Mother's Murder

It may have been almost 28 years but to Paulette Clark, it might as well be yesterday when her mother was murdered.

Clark remembers, "She had been shot 6 or 7 times like the head the mouth the chest I shook my mother and I was like mama mama and she said what and she died."

Paulette says she saw Frank Sofer jump in his car and drive away after her mother was killed and another man injured. In fact, police say Sofer has been a suspect since May 26th, 1978, the day the murder happened.

"When you have an open homicide file that's never gonna be closed until he's arrested or until we find out he's dead or he's incarcerated somewhere else for the rest of his life they do stick on you," said Lt. Stephen Kramer of the Cincinnati Police Department.

They say Sofer's arrest is the closure this family has needed since Jessie Marie Clark, a mother of three, was laid to rest.

"It's undescribable, I have children that never seen my mother," said Clark.  "Whatever he did to her he need to get done to him."

Just as he would have almost 30 years ago, sofer will stand trial for murder and attemtped murder at the age of 78 years old.

Clark adds, "least he's still alive my mother's dead i lost my mother when I was twelve."

As the 28th anniversary of her mother's death approaches, Paulette Clark may take the witness stand to tell the court her memory of what happened to her mother.

Report: Corey McConnell