{"id":290533,"date":"2026-05-13T02:39:32","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/290533\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T02:39:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T02:39:32","slug":"dallas-plano-detectives-honored-after-dna-work-solves-decades-old-child-assault-cases-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/290533\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas, Plano Detectives Honored After DNA Work Solves Decades-Old Child Assault Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:said;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;said&quot;}\" class=\"link \">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/mugshot-former-ice-cream-truck-180228883.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:reported;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;reported&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" 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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">DPD said the investigation gave the victims and their families long-awaited closure after the cases had remained unsolved for years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 and Plano police honored two detectives after their joint DNA work helped solve two decades-old child sexual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290534,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[102,3745,4081,106257,65008,105356,160,162,161],"class_list":["post-290533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-express","tag-dallas-police-department","tag-detective-deangelis","tag-detectives","tag-nicholas-carney","tag-plano","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290533","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=290533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}