{"id":455437,"date":"2026-10-03T17:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T17:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/455437\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T17:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T17:34:08","slug":"man-arrested-33-years-after-dallas-woman-found-murdered-in-her-home-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/455437\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested 33 years after Dallas woman found murdered in her home, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/dallas-police-department\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Dallas Police Department <\/a>announced Saturday that it has made an arrest in a 1993 <a href=\"http:\/\/cbsnews.com\/texas\/tag\/murder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">murder<\/a> after blood taken from the scene was entered into a national database, returning a match.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested 56-year-old Gary Len Ross on Friday, who the department noted was living under the alias of Tommy Lynn Jones. He is now charged with capital murder. A mugshot for Ross was listed online using the Jones alias.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image.png#.png\" alt=\"image.png \" height=\"807\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Gary Len Ross<\/p>\n<p>                Dallas County Jail<\/p>\n<p>Ross is accused of killing Tommie Davis, a 55-year-old woman. Dallas Police said she was found murdered inside her home along the 1500 block of Haskell Avenue on May 18, 1993, and that she had been beaten with a two-by-four piece of wood and slashed with a knife.<\/p>\n<p>The department said Detective Andrea Isom started reinvestigating the case and learned that some blood on a wall inside the home that did not belong to Davis was collected during the initial investigation. A DNA profile was obtained and entered into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS), which returned a match to the alias Ross was using.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Dallas Police Department is committed to pursuing justice in every case, no matter how much time has passed,&#8221; said Major Bobbie Epperson of the Dallas Police Department&#8217;s CAPERS Unit in a statement. &#8220;Detective Isom&#8217;s meticulous and persistent work exemplifies the dedication of our CAPERS Unit. We hope this arrest brings a measure of closure to Ms. Davis&#8217;s family and serves as a reminder that justice will always be pursued.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is still ongoing. Anyone who can offer more information can call Detective Isom at 214-671-3701 or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/texas\/news\/dallas-murder-cold-case-arrest-10-3-2026\/mailto:andrea.isom@dallaspolice.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">send her an email<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Police Department announced Saturday that it has made an arrest in a 1993 murder after blood&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2539,294,102,104,103,4081,636],"class_list":["post-455437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-cold-case","tag-crime","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-police-department","tag-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455437","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=455437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}