Cold cases don’t usually get solved in a classroom, but in North Texas, that’s exactly what happened! More than three decades after 25-year-old Cynthia Gonzalez was murdered, a group of college students helped detectives uncover a new suspect in a case that had gone silent since the early 1990s.
What started as a class project at the University of Texas at Arlington has now led to a capital murder charge, and long-awaited hope for a family that’s spent 34 years without answers.
What Happened to Cynthia Gonzalez?
Cynthia Gonzalez was just 25 years old when she was killed in September of 1991. According to police, Gonzalez dropped off her six-year-old daughter at her ex-husband’s home before heading to meet a client for a private dance. She never returned.
Her abandoned car was found near the meeting location, and five days later her body was discovered dumped in a rural ditch roughly 30 minutes away. She had been shot multiple times and left naked, and extreme Texas heat and rain severely damaged potential forensic evidence…