Report No: 88333359
Victim: Carol Preslar, 28 years old
Location: 6125 Bianca Circle
On June 25, 1988, officers were dispatched to the Avignon Apartment complex at 6125 Bianca Circle. They found the body of Carol Preslar in the apartment. She had been strangled. She lived alone in the apartment.
Also, case was reopened in 2022:
When Carol Lee Preslar was killed in 1988, it ruined her family’s life, as they pleaded for the Fort Worth Police Department to interview more suspects and look into evidence. Preslar was a 27-year-old University of Texas Arlington student who had dreamed of being a stock broker. She was living with one of her older sisters in Utah, but had moved out in pursuit of a fresh start. She was cocktail-waitressing at a local hotel to pay for her degree. She had her life ahead of her. That was all until she was brutally raped and murdered in June 1988, and no one has ever been held responsible...
McKenzie has taken on the responsibility of seeking justice for her aunt, who wasn’t that much older than she was...
Preslar’s boyfriend hadn’t heard from her in over 24 hours on June 25, 1988. He had an extra key to her apartment, in the Avignon Apartment complex at 6125 Bianca Circle, so he went inside and found his girlfriend dead and the room covered in blood. The 27-year-old had been beaten, tortured, tied, strangled and sexually assaulted...
Because she worked as a cocktail waitress, Jodi McKenzie said, the family feels the investigation into her aunt’s death was mishandled. “[The police] kind of blamed the victim,” she said. “They said some horrible things at that time like, ‘She got what she had coming to her.’ … ‘She partied.’ … And well, no, she didn’t deserve to die in that horrific way. No one has that coming to them” Investigators looked deeply into Preslar’s boyfriend, who later was cleared as a person of interest. Years later, in the early 2000s, the police department arrested a man who was Preslar’s neighbor, but DNA evidence and an alibi later proved it wasn’t him, either. Since then, there hasn’t been much luck."
