SAN ANTONIO — Nearly a decade after the killing of a San Antonio woman reported missing when she didn’t show up to work at H-E-B, a man is heading to prison after being convicted of her murder.
A Bexar County jury found R.C. Curtis III guilty of capital murder Friday, capping a dayslong retrial of the 40-year-old suspect when proceedings ended in a mistrial in 2021, according to the district attorney’s office. It’s the culmination of a yearslong pursuit of justice for friends and family of 75-year-old Paula Boyd, whose body was found by workers on Oct. 21, 2015, “nude and beaten in her home.”
Curtis was arrested on murder charges in March 2016, having previously been taken into custody when authorities said he tried and failed to withdraw $20 from a convenience story with Boyd’s credit cards…