An arrest has finally been made in the murder of 28-year-old Chasity Stine. Stine was strangled to death last April near her hometown of Las Animas in Bent County, and the man behind bars is not the person many were expecting to be cuffed and thrown in jail.

32-Year-old Henry Isom Junior was not the person arrested even though he has been the only person of interest throughout the 16-month investigation. Isom was Chasity Stine's estranged ex-boyfriend. They have three children together, but it's not him who's behind bars tonight it's his little brother 26-year-old Marc Anthony Gonzales.

11 News interviewed Isom months ago. We asked him if he was the one who killed Chasity, and this was his response. "No, no I did not," said Isom.

We then asked him what he thinks happened to Chasity. "I don't know. There are a lot of different stories I've been hearing and hopefully we'll know the truth and hopefully something will come out," said Isom.

And now something finally has. Gonzales was arrested on Thursday night near Lamar and was charged with first degree murder in the slaying of his brother's ex-girlfriend 28-year-old Chasity Stine.

For several months we had been asking the 16TH Judicial District Attorney Rodney Fouracre why the investigation was taking as long as it had. We asked him if he believed the case could become cold and Fouracre said, "I don't think so."

It was only a few weeks ago that the investigation was turned over to a grand jury who has obviously decided the prosecution has enough evidence against Gonzales to move forward and lock him up.

It's been bitter sweet news for Chasity's sister Nicole Even-Stine. "It's just amazing how someone could be so cruel to do that to another person," said Even-Stine in an interview during the one year anniversary of her sister's death.

We also looked up Gonzales' rap sheet and it's a long one. Over the past 10-years he's been arrested and has served time for things like harassment, domestic violence, escape, theft, drugs, burglary and menacing.

If Gonzales is convicted he faces life in jail with-out the possibility of parole.