CATHEDRAL CITY, Calif. -- A homeless man accused of raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl more than 40 years ago in Toledo, Ohio, has been arrested in Riverside County.

Robert Bowman, 72, was picked up Thursday in Cathedral City after two district attorney's investigators spotted him on a bicycle and believed he was wanted on an unrelated case, according to a press release from Steve Forrester of the Toledo Police Department.

Cathedral City police arrived on the scene and later discovered Bowman was wanted in Toledo for the murder of Eileen Adams. Bowman had been profiled on the "America's Most Wanted" television show last year.

Bowman is being held in jail in Indio and is scheduled for an extradition hearing on Monday.

He is accused of kidnapping, raping and killing Adams after she stepped off a school bus on Dec. 18, 1967. Her frozen body was found a month later in a rural field in Michigan, with a telephone cord around her neck and a nail in her skull.

Police believe Bowman has been living on the streets in Florida and California for years. Attempts to locate an attorney for Bowman were not successful Thursday.

The day Eileen vanished, she left her Catholic high school and took a bus as usual to a relative's home to meet her dad.

The freshman got off the bus, but never made it to the house. Then, on Jan. 31, 1968, her frozen body was found about 30 miles away in a field in rural Monroe County, Mich.

The mystery of Eileen's murder remained unsolved and the case went cold. But a break came in 1981. According to 'America's Most Wanted,' that's when a woman told Toledo police that her husband had killed a young girl in 1967.

The woman told police that she'd walked into her cellar to see a naked girl bound to the wall, her mouth gagged, according to the show. The woman says her husband later killed the girl and made her help him dump the body, the show's segment on the case stated.

Investigators tracked Bowman to Miami in 1982, but could not develop enough evidence to arrest him, according to the Toledo Blade newspaper. At the time, Bowman was living in a burned-out building and treated rats and snakes as pets, according to 'America's Most Wanted.'

Again, the case went cold for years. But a chance encounter in 2006 prompted police to reopen the investigation.

The Blade reported that Sgt. Mike McGee met the girl's father during a social gathering. The father pulled him aside to tell him about his daughter's unsolved murder, the officer later told the Blade.

Intrigued, McGee pulled the old case files. He looked over old evidence for DNA and found a sample.

The Ohio Bureau of Criminal Identification and Investigation lab eventually compared DNA from semen from the girl's underwear to a DNA sample taken from Bowman's daughter, the Blade reported. After that test, authorities issued an arrest warrant for Bowman in November 2006, according to the Blade.