Body of Mr. X exhumed from Cleburne cemetery after 40 years
Posted Thursday, Aug. 08, 2013
By Deanna Boyd and Terry Evans
dboyd@star-telegram.com tevans@star-telegram.com
CLEBURNE The remains of a man found slain more than 40 years ago were exhumed Thursday morning in hopes that investigators can finally learn his name and the identity of his killer.
Referred to by Johnson County Cold Case Squad members as simply Mr. X, the victim had been found by a rancher on Dec. 11, 1972, dumped in a field off Road 1131A, about 14 miles northwest of Cleburne.
The body was nude and decomposing near a cedar thicket. An autopsy later determined hed been shot three times with a .25 caliber handgun in the chest and right arm.
The case was reopened by Johnson Countys Cold Case Squad this spring, a group of retired law enforcement officers who volunteer their time investigating the unsolved slayings