The advancement of forensics may have helped law enforcement solve the 42-year-old cold case murder of 18-year-old Carol Joyce Deleon. On April 13, 2023, the Texas Rangers arrested 68-year-old Larry Allen West at his San Antonio residence.
The year was 1981 in southern Comal County on June 4, when the body of an unidentified female teenager that was partially nude was found along IH-35. According to an autopsy report, the victim died from multiple gunshot wounds to the head. Investigators tried identifying her through fingerprints, and they released a composite sketch to the local media. But it was to no avail, so they eventually buried her as a Jane Doe.
Twenty-seven years later, the Texas Rangers confirmed Deleon’s identity through a photo provided to the family and DNA testing. Investigators discovered she lived in the West Avenue area of San Antonio and had graduated from Thomas Edison High School on May 28, 1981, mere days before her death.
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