Berniest Wren was fishing last Friday when police called him to say his wife of 17 years was arrested on a murder warrant.
The family of Patricia Jones, 56, told him she was arrested in the case in 1986, but charges were later dropped.
But the case was reopened recently by "cold case" detectives at the Fort Worth Police Department.
Now the woman is back in jail, again facing charges in the 1986 death of her 19-month-old nephew, John P. Jones.
-- Bill Miller
Ricky James Jack was scheduled to be let out of prison Thursday after serving time on some theft charges, but there was this other matter about some DNA evidence.
Jack was charged Tuesday with capital murder in connection with the sexual assault and slaying of Ella Sterling, whose partially clothed body was found June 20, 2005, in brush behind a Fort Worth convenience store. The arrest came after cold case investigator Sarah Jane Waters identified clothing that could be screened for evidence using current forensic testing.
And that’s not the only case made recently by Waters using DNA evidence.
The second cold case is nearly 30 years old, to the day.
On March 13, 1983, popular Fort Worth pawn shop owner Melvin Lavine was shot to death during a home invasion robbery.
But now, three decades later, police have obtained an arrest warrant for a 48-year-old county jail inmate in Abilene who investigators say has been linked through DNA to the crime scene.
Benjamin W. Bewley, who is in the Taylor County Jail on charges of felony driving while intoxicated and parole violation, now faces a charge of capital murder on accusations that he fatally shot Lavine.
The break came after Waters submitted evidence from the back door of Lavine’s home. A DNA profile was developed and it pointed to Bewley.
Deanna Boyd has written about both cases. Read about Jack here, and then see the Lavine case here.
-- Bill Miller
Oak Farms Dairy has renewed the reward for information that would lead to the arrest and indictment of those responsible for the killing of George Hawkins, 52.
Hawkins (shown here) was shot Oct. 26, 2010 as he walked his dog on Elmwood Drive in Arlington.
Police don't think robbery was a motive, but no viable witnesses have come forward in the past two years.
Read more here in this report by Domingo Ramirez Jr.
Anthony "Toro" Levandoski, 28, (shown here) was arrested without incident at a Grand Prairie business, according to a news release.
Levandoski is accused of shooting Jaime Perez Ramos, whose body was found Jan. 5, 2011, inside a house in the 1500 block of Biggs Circle. The neighborhood is on Arlington’s east side, southeast of the intersection of South Collins Street and East Pioneer Parkway.
Ramos had been staying at the home with his girlfriend, said Tiara Ellis Richard, Arlington police spokeswoman.
They had argued three days before his body was found, and Ramos reportedly fired a gun, but no one was hurt, Richard said
"Afterward, the girlfriend left the house to go to the home of another man, who was an ex-boyfriend," Richard said. "Levandoski, the suspect in custody, is a friend of the ex-boyfriend and is believed to have shot Mr. Ramos in retaliation."
Levandoski remained in the Arlington City Jail on Friday. He faces a murder charge, and bail was $1 million, according to jail records.
