A grand jury in Tarrant County late Friday afternoon declined to indict Janie Perkins, whom Arlington police arrested last year on capital murder in a 34-year-old cold case homicide.
The no-bill in the 1991 killing of Cynthia Gonzalez comes in a case on which a University of Texas at Arlington criminology class worked with police.
“This is the difficult reality of many cold cases,” prosecutor Kim D’Avignon wrote in a statement. “Over time, witnesses can pass away or become unable to testify. Also, cold cases don’t have some of the modern technological resources like cell phone data and cameras. Sometimes these factors can leave us without the admissible evidence needed to prove a case beyond a reasonable doubt.”…