Johnny Leon Wilson was arrested one month after his wife's body was found in a ditch in 2018 but bonded out in 2019 with an ankle monitor that has since been removed or damaged, DPS officials said.
A Houston man wanted in connection to the murder of his estranged wife was named the Featured Fugitive of the month, according to a release by the Texas Department of Public Safety.The Harris County Sheriff's Office issued an arrest warrant in February for 53-year-old Johnny Wilson, who is listed on Texas' 10 Most Wanted list.ABC13 has extensively covered Wilson's path since it began in 2018.
Wilson was charged in 2018 after his wife, 29-year-old Charine Young, went missing on Nov. 10 of that year. Young was last seen alive after stopping at Wilson's apartment shortly after their 11-year-old son's football game.Court documents reveal that investigators found cleaning supplies, a bucket, and evidence of blood stains inside his apartment, subsequently leading to Wilson being charged.
Surveillance video also showed him removing a large object from his apartment and placing it in his trunk. Officials continued the search for the woman and Wilson for days before Young's heavily decomposed body was found partially clothed under vegetation in a ditch nearly 175 miles outside Houston in Richland, Texas, in December 2018.
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