The man was linked to the murder through new evidence and advanced DNA testing through the Texas DPS's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, or SAKI, program.
The Texas Rangers arrested 68-year-old Larry Allen West this week for the 1981 murder of 18-year-old Carol Joyce Deleon at his home. West had been linked to the murder through new evidence and advanced DNA testing through the Texas DPS's Sexual Assault Kit Initiative, or SAKI, program.Jail on a $125,000 bond. An indictment and trial are now pending.
In May 2008, the case went to the Texas Rangers's Unsolved Crimes Investigation Program and investigators determined that only one person similar to the victim's description had been reported missing in that time frame. Deleon had been reported missing to the San Antonio Police Department in 2007 by a family member, 26 years after the last time they had heard from her.
Graduation photos of 18-year-old Carol Joyce Deleon, whose partially nude body had been found along IH-35 in southern Comal County on June 4, 1981, just days after her high school graduation. Deleon had also said she would be moving away once she turned 18, so her family had assumed she had followed through. Deleon's youngest sister decided to file the missing persons report after years of not hearing from her.
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