DNA testing leads to arrest of suspect in 1996 murder of Mary Moore Searight

AUSTIN (KXAN) — On Thursday, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) said it identified a man connected with a 1996 cold case of a woman who an Austin park was named after .

According to DPS, 86-year-old Mary Moore Searight was murdered in Paris, Texas, on Aug. 18, 1996.

DPS said the man was identified using modern evidence testing. The man, later identified as 54-year-old David Paul Cady Jr., was indicted by a Lamar Co. grand jury on Dec. 12…

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