The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office has charged three people in connection with a pair of brutal murders in Long Branch in the 1990s that went unsolved for more than 25 years.

Delores Connors, her son Ted Connors and a third man, Jose Carrero,have been arrested in connection with the 1994 slaying of 24-year-old Ana Mejia and the shooting death of Nicholas Connors, 51, about five months later, the Prosecutor's Office said in a Twitter post Friday evening.

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Carrero was taken into custody in New Jersey on Friday morning. Delores and Ted Connors were arrested in Florida, authorities said.

Authorities did not release details about the arrests or reveal the charges against the trio.

However, the Monmouth County Sheriff’s website indicated Carrero, 49was being held without bail at the Monmouth County Jail, charged with two counts of murder.

The Prosecutor's Office said additional information would released in the coming days.

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A woman by the name of Delores Connors was related to both victims; she was the sister of Ana Mejia and the husband of Nicholas Connors, according to Asbury Park Press archives. Carrero's connection to the family is unclear.

The mutilated body of Mejia, who also was referred to as Mejia-Jimenez, was found stabbed to death inside her Prospect Avenue apartment Dec. 8, 1994. The attacker had slashed her throat, stabbed her some 20 times, smeared cocaine on her face and stuffed some of the drug inside her nose, authorities said at the time.

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Investigators at the time probed the killing as if it was drug-related.

Months later, Mejia's brother-in-law Nicholas Connors was shot to death inside his Van Dyke Place home. At the time, Delores Connors reported finding her husband's body on the morning of May, 14, 1995, after returning from a late-night shift at a Freehold nursing home, according to Press archives. She told police she found him on the couch covered in blood.

There were gun powder burns on the victim's head indicating that he had been shot at close range, authorities said.

Police said two children, ages 14 and 13, were asleep inside the house at the time and didn't hear anything.

Even in the mid-1990s, investigators suspected there was a connection between the murders of Mejia and Nicholas Connors. Then Monmouth County Prosecutor John Kaye told the Press that Delores and Nicholas Connors referred to Mejia as their stepdaughter, but she was in fact Delores' sister.

"They could be," Kaye told the Press in 1995 about the possibility of a connection between the two murders. "On the face of it, certainly there's a relation — the two (victims) were related."

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Authorities would not say at the time if there were suspects in either case. Both remained unsolved for decades.

The Prosecutor's Office indicated Friday that its Cold Case Unit, a team of detectives and prosecutors that review unsolved murders in the county, was responsible for cracking the case.

The unit was formed in 2018 and has led to breaks in other high-profile cases, including the shooting death of 12-year-old Quiana Dees in Asbury Park in 1992.

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The Prosecutor's Office said police in Long Branch and West Palm Beach in Florida were involved in the investigation.