A stripper-centric cold case is heating up again.
Cops on Monday arrested a pole dancer-turned-nurse from Queens and charged her with the decades-ago murder of a wealthy Louisiana businessman, saying forensic evidence sheds new light on the unsolved mystery.
Baton Rouge-based officers on Monday charged Leila Mulla, 47, of Long Island City with second degree murder and criminal conspiracy tied to the 1984 disappearance of fast food executive Gary Kergan.
The then-teenage stripper was the last person seen with Kergan before his death and was later charged with crimes connected to his murder. But a Louisiana district attorney back then opted not prosecute the case due to lack of evidence.
Now, new lab tests — including DNA taken from the trunk of Kergan’s blood-splattered pink Cadillac — allegedly link Mulla and her then-boyfriend, Ronald Dalton Dunnagan, to the crime, police say.
Kergan co-owned a chain of Sonic fast food restaurants in Louisiana and visited Night Spot Lounge in Baton Rouge, where the young stripper worked, according to cops.
Mulla could not be reached immediately for comment on Tuesday.
She now has a website in which she calls herself “an advocate of positivity.”