Inmate Charged In 24-Year-Old Murder Of Texas College Coed
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Inmate Charged In 24-Year-Old Murder Of Texas College Coed
A state prison inmate has been charged in the murder of a Texas college coed whose killing has gone unsolved for 24 years.
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(May 5, 2008)--A state prison inmate serving a life sentence has been charged in the murder of a Southern Methodist University student that has gone unsolved for 24 years.

Angela Samota was found dead of multiple stab wounds in 1984 in her off-campus apartment.

She was 20.

Dallas police said Monday that Donald Andrew Bess has been charged with capital murder in the death.

Authorities said they matched DNA evidence to Bess using technology that wasn't available when the college student was killed.

The 59-year-old Bess is serving a life sentence for three unrelated sexual assaults.

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Posted by: Anonymous on May 6, 2008 at 06:33 PM

FREE up some of that space and FRY them!!!!
Posted by: killeen on May 6, 2008 at 11:57 AM

I hope this family can have closure now.
Posted by: Susie BW Location: Kempner on May 6, 2008 at 11:14 AM

If the state would execute the murders within a year of their arrest, trial, and sentencing, there would be a lot less of this happening.
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