Woman Becomes Private Eye to Help Solve Murder of Best Friend Killed in 1984

Inside Edition ^ | 02/22/2018 | IE staff

[sodpoodle]

Wysocki said she made hundreds of calls to local police in an attempt to get them to reopen the case to no avail. "I’m a little obsessive when people don’t return a phone call,” she said. "I’m the type where if you don’t return a call, I’m going to start calling even more. I started calling more and more and more. And I kept getting blown off each time."

2005, she took matters into her own hands. “At that point I thought, 'OK, now I’m going to become a private investigator. Then you’ll take me seriously,'" Her persistence paid off in 2006, when Dallas police tasked detective Linda Crumb with reopening the case.

sent off the DNA found at the scene for analysis. More than two years passed before any match was found, but finally, an unsuspecting hit gave Wysocki and law enforcement the answer they needed.

DNA found at the scene came back a match with Donald Andrew Bess, a convicted rapist serving a life sentence at Huntsville Prison in Texas.

was convicted in 2010 of Samota’s murder and sentenced to death.

[sodpoodle]

Go to the link for the whole story. I excerpted the last few paragraphs.

[MarineBrat]

The people that talk about closure, they’ve really never been through something like that, so, the fact that people are like, 'Don’t you feel better? Don’t you feel some accomplishment?' No, she’s still dead.

A good story, though I think she needs to rethink this. Far too broad of a brush.

[gattaca]

I remember a similar story about an older woman called Citizen Jane. A movie was made about her.

[Boogieman]

“I’m the type where if you don’t return a call, I’m going to start calling even more.”

Sounds like a fun date...

[bgill]

Hers was the only cold case solved in Dallas that year.

Sad.

Don't count on rape kits being processed in Texas. There's a huge backlog and so much incompetence in the labs that the state has shut them down.