Posted on 02/22/2018 2:17:25 PM PST by sodpoodle
Wysocki said she made hundreds of calls to local police in an attempt to get them to reopen the case to no avail. "Im a little obsessive when people dont return a phone call, she said. "Im the type where if you dont return a call, Im 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 Im going to become a private investigator. Then youll 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 Samotas murder and sentenced to death.
(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...
A good story, though I think she needs to rethink this. Far too broad of a brush.
I remember a similar story about an older woman called Citizen Jane. A movie was made about her.
“Im the type where if you dont return a call, Im going to start calling even more.”
Sounds like a fun date...
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.
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