MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - For a second time, a first-degree homicide charge is being filed against Melvin Parker.

He's was charged in the stabbing and strangulation death of Dorothy Paige for the first time in 1998. She was found dead in her Madison apartment in 1994.

Charges were dismissed in the first case against Parker when a key witness became unavailable.

Investigators say they have found the witness and have added several others. The charges come, at least in part, due to the formation of a cold case review team in the Madison Police Department.

The Paige case was the first to be taken up by that team. Parker is already behind bars on theft and burglary convictions from more than a decade ago.