Liborio Canales News Today

An 86-year-old man will likely live out his final years in prison after being captured and convicted for a murder that happened nearly 40 years ago. Advances in DNA technology made it happen.

“Investigative Genetic Genealogy is no longer the future of solving violent crimes, it is very much the present,” said Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot.

Verna Dennis was stabbed and beaten to death during a robbery attempt at her home back in 1997.

Police in Plano are looking for information about an accused killer who once lived in North Texas.

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Garland police crediting DNA genealogy for helping solve a nearly four-decades-old murder case.

The brother-in-law of a Texas woman stabbed to death in 1986 allegedly confessed to the murder this week after DNA linked him to the crime.

Investigators used DNA technology to link Liborio Canales to the 1986 death of his sister-in-law, Barbara Villareal.

Sarah Peet, 23, was rescued by a pair of tourists and survived a mauling by several dingoes as she jogged along a beach in Queensland, Australia, with wildlife authorities making the "tough decision" to euthanize the leader of the pack.

The suspect is accused of killing Barbara Villarreal, who was found dead on Nov. 7, 1986, in Garland, about 20 miles from Dallas.