BENTON COUNTY (KFSM) — The Benton County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday (June 22) it solved a homicide case from four years ago. On Dec. 24, 2...

BENTON COUNTY (KFSM) — The Benton County Sheriff’s Office announced Wednesday (June 22) it solved a homicide case from four years ago.

On Dec. 24, 2012, deputies were called to a home on Highway 12 east of Rogers where Sigismund Rahn, 85, had been stabbed, according to the sheriff’s office. The autopsy listed the cause of death as homicide.

Witnesses in the case maintained Rahn accidentally fell on a knife, until the case was reassigned in May 2016 and the witnesses were questioned again, the sheriff’s office said.

Rahn’s daughter told detectives she stabbed her father in self-defense when he tried to attack her in the kitchen, according to the sheriff’s office. She said her father was upset about the preparation of Christmas dinner and he had attacked her in the past, as well as threatened to kill her. the sheriff’s office said.

Following the confession and a review of the case by the Benton County prosecutor, criminal charges will not be filed in the case.