It was more than 44 years ago that Candyce Fletcher-Mora was brutally stabbed to death in her apartment in McAllen, in front of her two year old daughter.
The crime has never been solved, and her killer is still on the losse, and the DPS says it's time to do something about that.
Gov. Greg Abbott today offered enhanced rewards for the arrest of the perpetrator in 12 cold cases, including Candyce's case, in an attempt to solve some of the oldest most outstanding murders in Texas.
“It is a tremendous affront to society when a heinous crime like murder goes unsolved, and the state of Texas has an obligation to the victims and our communities to help ensure justice is ultimately served,” said Governor Abbott
“This new reward program was created to help identify the perpetrators of these crimes and provide overdue closure in these cases.”
The Texas Ranger Unsolved Crimes Investigation Program will head up the effort to crack these cases, and the rewards are funded by the Governor's Criminal Justice Program.
Other cases involved teenagers Sally McNeely and Shane Stewart, who went to a fireworks display in Tom Green County on the Fourth of July 1988. Later that year, their bodies were found about twenty miles away, both had been shot to death.Also in 1988, Kim Sue Leggett was abducted from her office in Mercedes by two men who called her father and demanded ransom. But the offer to pay ransom was never responded to, and police think she was murdered and her body never found.There are plenty of other stories like this of families which have never found a sense of peace following the murder of a loved one.
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