Harris

STEUBENVILLE — Michael L. Harris, 53, of Apartment 1, 1219 State St. was indicted Wednesday morning by the Jefferson County grand jury on charges of aggravated murder and murder in connection with the January 1987 stabbing death of Jill Howard. Harris and his brother came to the Steubenville police station around 11:30 a.m. Wednesday to turn himself into police. He was booked and taken to the Jefferson County jail. Two members of the Ohio Attorney General’s Office were appointed special prosecutors in the case in April and presented information to the grand jury Wednesday. The 18-year-old Howard was found stabbed 61 times in Webster Alley on Jan. 6, 1987. Harris was charged with her murder and bound over from municipal court to the county grand jury but no indictment was returned. Human blood was found on the inside and outside of a car owned by Harris and a leather jacket taken from a house on North Sixth Street, according to testimony from Harris’ municipal court hearing. Howard