GREENVILLE.

GREENVILLE, SC -- A registered sex convict wanted in the death of a Clemson University learner who was strangled with her bikini top was captured late Tuesday in Tennessee officials said.

Jerry fop Inman, who was wanted upon arrest warrants for murder, rape and kidnapping, was taken into custody during a traffic stop about a mile from his parents' household in Dandridge, Tenn., Sheriff David Davenport said.

Inman was being taken to the shire jail. No other details of his arrest were immediately released.

Inman's DNA matched samples taken from Tiffany Marie Souers' apartment, said State Law Enforcement Division Chief Robert Stewart.

The corpse of the 20-year-old civil engineering junior from Ladue, Mo was discovered May 26 in her off-campus apartment, wearing merely a bra with the bikini top still around her neck

The 35-year-old construction worker was registered as a sex culprit in Florida and North Carolina. His last address is listed as Dandridge, Tenn

His mother, Vera McArthur, told the Greenville freshs earlier Tuesday that her son is bipolar and frequently suicidal.

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