A man was sentenced in the 2007 cold case murder of Bethel Ann Rawls on Feb. 16, according to court documents.
Records show that 66-year-old Anthony Darrell Lankford was sentenced to 15 years in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice after pleading guilty to murder.
ABC13 previously reported that Lankford was arrested and charged in connection to Rawls’ death in 2024, nearly 17 years after the 43-year-old was found dead in her southwest Houston apartment by family members…