Weldon Alexander is believed to have killed his 14-year-old daughter Karen Alexander and 13-year-old son Gordon Alexander in 1981
Nicole Acosta is a Staff Writer on the crime team at PEOPLE. She previously worked at Daily Voice and doNYC and is a Mercy College graduate.More than four decades after two young siblings were found murdered in an Arkansas home, authorities have finally identified a suspect through DNA evidence — their father.on Oct.
According to investigators, there was no sign of forced entry. Police said at the press conference that at the time of the murders, the children’s mother, Vera Alexander, was in the hospital as a patient being treated for mental health issues and the father, Weldon, was working an overnight shift at Copper Tire and Rubber.
Detectives spent years combing through evidence, identifying witnesses, and following up on leads. By 1983, Henry Lee Lucas, a notorious serial killer also known as theclaimed to have murdered the children, but was never charged due to lack of evidence. The case eventually went cold. Also, evidence taken from the dried blood found on Gordon’s hands and Karen’s body contained fibers, brass, copper and zinc, all of which were materials used in the construction of tires at Copper Tire and Rubber, where their father worked.
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