Posted on 05/26/2018 2:24:24 PM PDT by BBell
Debra Reiding was an 18-year-old newlywed when her husband discovered her remains in their South Austin home.
An Austin man was indicted Thursday in the 1979 cold case murder of Debra Reiding, Austin police officials said. Michael Anthony Galvan, 64, faces one count each of capital murder and murder after investigators linked him to Reiding’s death through DNA evidence. He was arrested Thursday and was still in the Travis County Jail in lieu of bail set at $750,000 on Friday afternoon.
Galvan has worked and lived in Austin since Reiding’s killing, police said. He was a suspect in 1979, but there was not sufficient evidence to charge him, Austin police officials said. Advances in DNA technology allowed cold case detectives to connect him to the crime, police said.
“We want to commend the Austin Police Department, specifically the Cold Case Unit, in its perseverance and dedication to this case,” said Keith M. Henneke, the case’s lead prosecutor with the Travis County district attorney’s office.
Reiding was an 18-year-old newlywed when her husband discovered her remains in their South Austin home. The couple had recently moved to Austin from Montana. Investigators found evidence that she had been strangled and sexually assaulted.
Reiding and Galvan were both employed at the Montana Mining Company restaurant in Austin. Galvan quit the week before the murder and took a job at another restaurant.
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The long arm of the law, indeed. Better late than never.
now he can die in prison hoping for piped-in sunlight.
How is DNA working here? They were newlyweds.
Interesting. HOORAY investigators. Potential SCUMBAGS near you ALERT.
Her husband, Robert Reiding, came home from work to find her under the covers with a pillow over her face on Jan. 22, 1979, according to the Austin Police Department. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled.
I should have posted the other article. It has more information. My bad.
I misread the article....my really bad...
Karma is rarely instant but it does eventually show up.
I like the fact that hundreds (maybe thousands) of men who thought they got away with murder must now live with the ever present fear that the cops are going to knock on their front door.
“How is DNA working here? “
if you had bothered reading more than the headline, you would see that it was a coworker who was the murdered, and not the husband who was the murderer.
oops. sorry. i see others have already pointed that out and you issued a mea culpa.
i apologize for needlessly piling on ...
The article was not real clear. I should have posted the other one.
Montana Mining Company... I’m a native since I’m two and never heard of that restaurant but I know some friends who will...
The chain went out of business decades ago.
I have some old local friends ;)
I wish they'd use it in an abortion case to prove that mother and fetus are separate individuals.
Maybe they’ll remember.
From where did the DNA come from?
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