TX TX- Virginia White, 81, robbed, SA, & strangled @ home, Dallas, 15 Dec., 1981, DNA- Willie Jones, 83, taken into custody, 2025.

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Jan 27 2025

DNA evidence leads Dallas police to arrest in 40-year-old cold case

Willie Jones was arrested and charged for the 1981 murder of an 81-year-old woman.

www.cbsnews.com

''While in custody, a DNA sample was taken and has since been confirmed related to the murder of 81-year-old Virginia White on Dec. 15, 1981.''
''In May 2024, Dallas Homicide Detectives Andrea Isom and David Grubbs began investigating cold cases and discovered previously untested sexual assault swabs in White's case. In 1981, DNA was not available as a known investigative tool.''

DNA evidence ties man to cold case murder after four decades, police say

Dallas police say a man is in custody, charged in a cold case murder dating back to December 1981.

www.nbcdfw.com

''Police said 83-year-old Willie Jones was taken into custody on Jan. 16 for a parole violation related to a sexual assault. Investigators said a DNA sample taken tied Jones to the murder of Virginia White.

White was 81 years old when she was found murdered in her home on the 4100 block of Furey Street on Dec. 14, 1981.

Dallas police said Jones, who was 40 at the time of White's death, has been charged with capital murder. Police didn't reveal any other information about the evidence or the murder investigation.''

 

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Jan 27, 2025
Dallas police arrested an 83-year-old man in an over-40-year murder investigation.

 

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White was initially believed to have died from natural causes, but the Dallas County Medical Examiner’s Office later found marks on her neck consistent with strangulation. An autopsy concluded she died from asphyxia and was sexually assaulted, police wrote in the affidavit

New DNA evidence leads to 83-year-old’s arrest in 1981 Dallas cold case killing

A man was recently arrested in connection with the 1981 cold case killing of a woman inside her Dallas home

www.dallasnews.com