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Suspect in 1996 tanning bed murders now jailed in Nashville

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A man wanted for the stabbing deaths of two 18-year-old women inside a tanning salon 19 years ago has been returned to Nashville.

Multiple media outlets report that 39-year-old Patrick L. Streater had been held in a prison in San Diego, California until Wednesday, serving time for robbery. Metro Nashville police officers transported him back to the city to answer to a 2013 indictment charging him with the 1996 stabbings.

Streater is charged with two counts of premeditated first-degree murder in connection to the Feb. 22, 1996 slayings of Tiffany Campbell and Melissa Dawn Chilton inside the tanning salon where the women worked.

Authorities say Streater is expected to appear before a Nashville Criminal Court judge in the near future. It is not clear if he has an attorney