By Trina A. San Agustin
Variety News Staff

A MAN was arrested and charged in connection with a murder nine years ago, thanks to the assistance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the Guam Police Department’s Cold Case Unit.
Edward Taijeron Megofna, 52, was arrested Friday for the 1998 murder of 42-year-old Huen Sun Kennedy. He is being held in lieu of $500,000.
Megofna is scheduled to appear for another hearing on March 20 at 4 p.m.
Megofna was charged with aggravated murder as a first-degree felony.
According to court documents, the arrest was made after DNA testing returned from the FBI linked Megofna to the crime.
Court documents state that analysis found Megofna’s DNA was “under the fingernails of Huen Sun Kennedy, who was murdered on Sept. 7, 1998.”
Megofna, at the time, was a security guard for the apartment complex where Kennedy was residing.
The individual alleged to have been inside Kennedy’s apartment was a man arrested in November 2006 — Luis Aldan De Leon Guerrero, 23.
Megofna told police that when Kennedy arrived at the apartment complex, he met with her at the doorway of her apartment. Megofna and the co-conspirator grabbed her arms and pushed her inside the apartment as they had planned, according to court documents.
Megofna also stated that there were two other men inside her apartment, who were involved in the plan to rob Kennedy.
Court documents said Kennedy’s body was discovered on Sept. 9, 1998, two days after the events took place. The chief medical examiner said the cause of Kennedy’s death was blunt force trauma and asphyxiation.
Megofna’s arrest, according to GPD public affairs officer Allan Guzman, was the first arrest made based on DNA test results.