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Just before attorneys were to pick his jury, a murder suspect pleaded guilty to manslaughter Tuesday.

Thomas Burton Trosper, 54, admitted he killed Kenneth Geiger, 37, during a struggle in June 1990, said Deputy Pima County Attorney William McCollum.

Trosper will be sentenced July 1 to somewhere between seven and 15 years in prison, McCollum said.

Geiger's body was found at the Lazy 8 Motel on East Benson Highway near South Park Avenue on June 2, 1990.

At the time of his arrest last year, Tucson police detectives said Trosper was linked to the scene of the crime with fingerprints and tracked to Brooksville, Fla., in January 2007.

After cold-case investigators met with Trosper at his home in Brooksville, they obtained a warrant for his arrest but were unable to find him.

But police reports indicate that two months later, a Hernando County Sheriff's Office deputy saw Trosper walking with a cane and he appeared to be handicapped.

Because it was so early in the morning, the deputy decided to ask whether he was OK.

After running his name through a national crime database, the deputy learned Trosper was wanted for murder in Arizona.

Trosper told the deputy he and Geiger fought after Geiger tried "a gay move on him."

He fled in the victim's vehicle and abandoned it later, Trosper told authorities.

Trosper also told the deputy he shot himself in the head in 1992. A piece of the round remains in his head, causing paralysis on the right side of his body.

Pima County Superior Court Judge Richard Nichols is presiding over the case.