The Dallas Police Department announced that detectives solved a sexual assault cold case that had remained unsolved for more than a decade through the Department of Justice’s Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI).<\/p>\n
Detective Elizabeth DeAngelis, who began leading Dallas’ SAKI efforts in 2021, received a DNA match in February 2026 on one of the department’s oldest cold cases. She partnered with Detective Sara Sheerin to reopen the investigation, reinterview victims and collect additional DNA evidence. <\/p>\n
Detective Carlos Cardenas later assisted by interviewing a suspect and obtaining additional testimony.<\/p>\n
Investigators combined the new evidence with DNA results and identified 35-year-old Jarvis Pierce as the suspect. The Dallas Police Fugitive Unit arrested Pierce in June 2026, and he was charged with sexual assault. <\/p>\n
Detectives are continuing to investigate whether Pierce may be connected to other cold cases.<\/p>\n
The department credited Detectives DeAngelis, Sheerin and Cardenas for their work, saying their efforts helped provide long-awaited justice for victims and highlighted the value of the SAKI program in solving cold cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Police Department announced that detectives solved a sexual assault cold case that had remained unsolved for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":368428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[294,102,104,103,4081,18349,130544,27],"class_list":["post-368427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police-department","tag-dna","tag-sex-assault","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368427","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=368427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}