Man charged in wife’s 1990 death

A 51-year-old man has been charged with the 1990 slaying of his former wife after his daughter told police that he confessed to killing her, authorities said.

Prosecutors on Friday charged Rodney Boesel of Gary with murder in the death of Donna Boesel, then 22, said Lake County Sheriff Rogelio “Roy” Dominguez in Crown Point.

Authorities said the confession came as Alicia Boesel, 19, was looking at a machete in his home.

“He said, ‘What are you doing looking at that? You don’t know what to do with that,” Alicia Boesel said at a news conference. “Then he told me he was going to slice my throat with it like he did my mother.”