THERE was nothing to link the man who killed Gold Coast woman Linda Reed to her death when he was arrested for another murder two years later, a retired homicide Detective says. The retired Detective also praised technology after DNA from samples taken at the time led to the arrest of Troy James O Meara in 2018 in connection to the December 1983 killing. Front pages from the 1980s, after Linda Reed was murdered. O Meara on Monday pleaded guilty in Brisbane Supreme Court to murdering Ms Reed, a 21-year-old retail assistant. It was also revealed that he had been convicted of murdering Vanessa Joy O Brien, 22, of Kippa Ring in 1985.
DECATUR â Police said Sunday they are investigating an emergency call about a person being shot in a Decatur home â and threats to shoot responding officers â that turned out to be a malicious false alarm.
A statement from Detective Sgt. Chris Copeland said the call came in at 9:12 p.m. Saturday and prompted a heavy response of some 14 officers sent to a home in the 1800 block of East Decatur Street.
âThe caller made statements that they had just shot someone in the residence and that they would shoot any responding police,â said Copeland.
âIt looks like 14 officers responded, with several taking up positions on a perimeter surrounding the area.â
A status hearing is set for Monday in the case of a Killeen man who has been awaiting a jury trial on a capital murder charge from nearly seven years ago.
Marvin Louis Guy, 56, is accused of shooting a Killeen Police Department detective, who later died, during a no-knock raid on Guyâs residence on Circle M Drive in 2014. Guy has claimed self-defense, saying that he did not know it was police entering his residence.
KPD SWAT Detective Charles âChuckâ Dinwiddie and three other officers were shot on May 9, 2014, and Dinwiddie died in a hospital two days later.
Guy has been held in the Bell County Jail since being booked on May 10, 2014.