Irasema Chavez (L) and Mayra Velasquez
A successful North Texas real estate agent has been charged with capital murder in connection with the 2012 stabbing death of her former close friend after investigators used forensic genetic genealogy and DNA evidence to solve a case that had remained unsolved for 14 years.
The Arlington Police Department arrested 42-year-old Mayra Velasquez in July 2026 in the killing of Irasema Chavez, who was 32 when she was found dead inside her Arlington apartment in January 2012…