Almost 38 years to the day that 21-year-old Mary Jane Thompson was found dead behind a warehouse in Dallas, Texas, prosecutors were finally able to make an arrest in her case, the Dallas County District Attorney's office said.
Almost 38 years to the day that 21-year-old Mary Jane Thompson was found dead behind a warehouse in Dallas, Texas, prosecutors were finally able to make an arrest in her case, the Dallas County District Attorney's office said.
Thompson was found murdered and sexually assaulted along Irving Boulevard on February 13, 1984, officials said in a Friday news release. But shortly after authorities found her body, her case went cold for 25 years. In 2009, years after DNA technology had advanced, Dallas Police reopened the case and tested male DNA, but there was never a match, according to prosecutors. The case went cold again for almost 10 years.
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