{"id":287270,"date":"2026-05-10T22:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287270\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:59:08","slug":"dallas-plano-detectives-honored-after-dna-work-solves-decades-old-child-assault-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287270\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas, Plano Detectives Honored After DNA Work Solves Decades-Old Child Assault Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                                    Dallas Police Department and Plano Police Department logos are pictured against a police lights background | Image by Dallas Police Department\/Plano Police Department\/web                                <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"182\" data-end=\"341\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Dallas and Plano police honored two detectives after their joint DNA work helped solve two decades-old child sexual assault cases tied to the same suspect.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"265\" data-end=\"544\">The Dallas Police Department <a href=\"https:\/\/dpdbeat.com\/2026\/05\/07\/dallas-and-plano-detectives-partner-to-solve-decades-old-child-sexual-assault-case\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said<\/a> Detective DeAngelis and Plano Police Detective Benzick helped identify Nicholas Carney through forensic investigative genetic genealogy after DNA evidence linked a 1991 Plano case to an unsolved Dallas case.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"546\" data-end=\"789\">In 2023, Benzick revisited the Plano case and contacted DeAngelis. The two detectives then worked through old evidence, witness leads, and DNA records to develop Carney as a suspect, according to DPD Beat.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"11\" data-end=\"265\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">As previously <a href=\"https:\/\/dallasexpress.com\/crime\/mugshot-former-ice-cream-truck-driver-nicholas-carney-receives-life-for-1991-north-texas-child-assault\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> by The Dallas Express, a Collin County jury convicted Carney in connection with the 1991 Plano case, and a judge sentenced him to life in prison. The Collin County District Attorney\u2019s Office announced the sentence in January.<\/p>\n<p>DPD said the investigation gave the victims and their families long-awaited closure after the cases had remained unsolved for years.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1212\" data-end=\"1395\">Detective DeAngelis was awarded the Super Sleuth Award during the annual Collin County Crime Victims Luncheon on April 22, according to DPD Beat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas Police Department and Plano Police Department logos are pictured against a police lights background | Image by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[86987,2539,960,4081,6883,105355,105356,160,162,161,1934,1225,105357],"class_list":["post-287270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-child-sexual-assault","tag-cold-case","tag-collin-county","tag-dallas-police-department","tag-dna-evidence","tag-forensic-genealogy","tag-nicholas-carney","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news","tag-plano-police-department","tag-public-safety","tag-super-sleuth-award"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}