A New Hampshire man has been charged with killing a 73-year-old woman 33 years after she was found dead in the bathroom of her Kittery home, Maine State Police announced Thursday. Daniel Jolly, 59, of Portsmouth, was taken into custody Thursday morning in connection with the 1993 homicide of Maxine Bitomski, state police said. Jolly was arrested at about 6:15 a.m. on a warrant charging him with murder. He was taken to the Rockingham County Jail. Police say he will remain in New Hampshire pending extradition proceedings. State and Kittery police have worked together on the cold case for more than three decades. In 2021, the investigation was reexamined by state police, who used advances in DNA testing that ultimately led to Jolly’s arrest, police said. Bitomski’s grandson found her body in her Colonial Road home at about 3 p.m. on Jan. 16, 1993. Bitomski lived alone and was last seen alive by her granddaughter the night before. Police have not released her cause of death. “It’s to our benefit to not disclose the cause of death. … Only one other person knows, and that’s the murderer,” state police Sgt. Michael Harriman said in January 1993. After Bitomski’s body was discovered, police canvassed the area and, after no one was found, assured neighbors that there was no active threat to the community. Nearly a decade after the murder, Bitomski’s family told the Portsmouth Herald that her granddaughter Candus Cavaretta called Bitomski on the evening of Jan. 15. Bitomski had watched a Kittery Town Council meeting on TV, then talked to a friend on the phone until around midnight. The next morning, a Portsmouth Herald carrier noticed a broken pane of glass in the home’s door when he delivered Bitomski’s newspaper, the family said in 2001. The carrier and neighbors saw the door was slightly open, but no one called police, according to the family. Bitomski’s grandson arrived later that afternoon and noticed shattered glass in the house, then found her nude body in the bathtub, according to the family. They said there were no traces of blood and pieces of furniture were broken inside the house. Large footprints were found outside. More than a year later, a woman gardening a short distance from Bitomski’s house found a plastic Kmart bag under a bush. It contained a robe, pajamas, tissues, candy wrappers and an inhaler with Bitomski’s name written on it, according to the Portsmouth Herald. Police said Thursday that Jolly knew Bitomski through his job with Medical Market, a medical supply company in Portsmouth that provided oxygen equipment and services to Bitomski prior to her death. “This arrest reflects the determination and commitment of investigators who never stopped working this case,” said Lt. Tom Pickering, who oversees the state police’s unsolved homicide unit. “The work completed by current and retired Maine State Police detectives, members of the Maine State Police Crime Laboratory and the Kittery Police Department over the past 33 years was instrumental in bringing this case to this point.” Bitomski’s case is one of two active cold case murders in Kittery. Police are still investigating the death of Charles Mace, who was last seen being forced into a car in Portsmouth on July 28, 1974. His body was found on Sept. 23, 1974, off Betty Welch Road. Kittery police are also investigating the cold case disappearance of Reeves Johnson III, who left work in February 1983 and was never heard from again.