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Updated: 9:56 a.m. Friday, Sept. 28, 2007 | Posted: 5:49 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, 2007

State Trooper Accused Of Slaying Indiana County Dentist

BLAIRSVILLE, Pa. —

An Indiana County dentist was found brutally slain in his home in 2006. More than a year later, a suspect was arrested Thursday, charged with homicide.

The Pennsylvania Attorney General's office charged Trooper Kevin Foley for the killing of Dr. John Yelenic, a popular dentist in Blairsville.

Officials said Foley was romantically involved with Yelenic's estranged wife as the pair were going through a bitter divorce.

Investigators involved in the case released information concerning the case that they claimed pointed to Foley. Officials said Foley entered Yelenic's home on South Spring Street and that evidence showed a struggle happened. Investigators believe Foley used a knife and glass from a shattered window to cause cuts on Yelenik's body, eventually causing him to bleed to death.

The evidence, investigators said, that tied Foley to the scene included a specific type of running shoe that Foley owned and shoe prints found in the blood that matched those shoes.

Foley was jailed Thursday with no bond set.

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