July 10, 2025 – A cold case murder has been solved after nearly 30 years according to an announcement from the Hopkins County Sheriff’s Office.
A statement from the Sheriff’s Office says: “After nearly three decades, a major development has been made in the 1996 murder of Geraldine Blackmon. On Tuesday, 71-year-old William Doyle Magness of Midlothian, Texas, was arrested and charged with murder in connection with the cold case.”
Working with the Texas Rangers, Hopkins County Sheriff’s investigators executed a search warrant at Magness’s residence on Tuesday. During the warrant service, an arrest warrant for murder was also served, and Magness was taken into custody without incident. He was booked into the jail on s charge of murder. His bond is set at $1 million…