(NewsNation) — Students in a criminology class at a Texas university have helped local police solve a 34-year-old cold case.
Police arrested Jamie Perkins, 63, on Nov. 6 in connection with the 1991 murder of 25-year-old Cynthia Gonzalez, according to an Arlington Police Department statement. Perkins was later charged with one count of capital murder.
Even though police had multiple leads, no one was ever arrested for Gonzalez’s murder — until students in the University of Texas at Arlington’s Criminology and Criminal Justice Department class stepped in to help…