{"id":455467,"date":"2026-10-03T18:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T18:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/455467\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T18:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T18:24:09","slug":"dallas-police-make-arrest-in-30-year-old-cold-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/455467\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas police make arrest in 30-year-old cold case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/untitled-october-03-2026-at-12.46.34.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">DALLAS &#8211; Dallas police have made an arrest in a 1993 murder case after additional forensic testing led the identification of a suspect.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Gary Len Ross, 56, was arrested Friday and charged with capital murder.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">On May 18, 1993, 55-year-old Tommie Davis was found murdered inside her home on Haskell Avenue. Police said Davis had been beaten with a board and slashed with a knife.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to police, the only investigative leads were damage to the front door and some missing items.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Detectives began to reinvestigate the case more than 30 years later and it was discovered that blood on a wall inside the home did not belong to Davis. A match to the blood came back to Tommy Lynn Jones. Investigators determined that the name was an alias used by Ross.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"KDFW\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#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\u2019s CAPERS Unit. &#8220;Detective Isom\u2019s meticulous and persistent work exemplifies the dedication of our CAPERS Unit. We hope this arrest brings a measure of closure to Ms. Davis\u2019s family and serves as a reminder that justice will always be pursued.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this article comes from the Dallas Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/us\/tx\/dallas-county\/dallas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox4news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article DALLAS &#8211; Dallas police have made an arrest in a 1993 murder case after additional forensic testing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":455468,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1046,102,581,104,103,223,216,393],"class_list":["post-455467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-news","tag-tx","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455467","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=455467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/455468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}