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A registered sex offender was in custody Wednesday after authorities said his DNA was found in the apartment of a Clemson University student who was strangled with her bikini top.

Jerry Buck Inman, 35, was arrested without incident late Tuesday after sheriff’s deputies spotted his car driving past his parents’ home in Dandridge, about 30 miles east of Knoxville, Jefferson County Sheriff David Davenport said.

“He showed back up, and by God we got him and we’re going to send him back to South Carolina,” Davenport told The Associated Press.

Inman was arrested on warrants for murder, rape and kidnapping, and was being held in the county jail pending a preliminary hearing Wednesday.