A Tarrant County grand jury declined to indict a woman that Arlington police claimed was behind a cold case murder from 1991. The decision, called a no bill, means that Janie Perkins is cleared of a capital murder charge in the death of Cynthia Gonzalez.
The case gained renewed attention in November when Perkins was arrested. The Arlington Police Department said that detectives identified Perkins as the suspect after working with students at the University of Texas at Arlington through a new partnership.
At the start of the fall semester, UTA’s Department of Criminology & Criminal Justice launched a course that allows students to review cold cases in an effort to develop new leads. The Gonzalez case was one of three the students were presented with, and it was assigned to a small group…