{"id":391144,"date":"2026-07-29T21:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/391144\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:57:07","slug":"woman-charged-in-2012-arlington-murder-released-on-bond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/391144\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman charged in 2012 Arlington murder released on bond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The North Texas real estate agent accused of capital murder is out of jail.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/arlington-cold-case-arrest-2012-stabbing-mayra-velasquez-july-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Mayra Velasquez <\/a>posted a $450,000 bond and has strict guidelines to follow to remain free.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Velasquez walked out of the Tarrant County Jail after her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/arlington-cold-case-arrest-2012-stabbing-mayra-velasquez-july-2026\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-absolute=\"true\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">arrest on July 20 for the murder of Irasema Chavez<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 42-year-old real estate agent was fitted with an ankle monitor after surrendering her passport and agreeing to other restrictions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Arlington Police say recent DNA testing on a drop of blood found at the crime scene links Velasquez to the murder of Chavez. who was stabbed 100 times inside her apartment back in 2012.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But the attorney for Velasquez says security camera video of the suspected killer entering Chavez&#8217;s apartment doesn&#8217;t match his client&#8217;s description and that the evidence against her is weak.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police have yet to reveal a motive, but the two have been described as friends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Through her attorney, Velasquez has denied any involvement in the killing as she now waits to stand trial.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The North Texas real estate agent accused of capital murder is out of jail.\u00a0 Mayra Velasquez posted a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[150,2539,636,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-391144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-arlington","tag-cold-case","tag-murder","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391144","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=391144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}