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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these guys look all the same...not much hair, overweight, the stupid look....
Karma is a dish sometimes best served cold.
...or something like that.
Living in Austin all these years is punishment enough... almost.
Getting DNA from old evidence is one thing but sneaking into 23andMe and such testing is crossing the line of relatives’ privacy.
Galvan’s DNA was tested last summer and then compared to semen stains found on a robe Reiding was wearing when she was killed. The evidence “positively” links Galvan to the crime, according to Austin police.
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