Houston police have arrested a man in connection with the 2007 murder of a woman, using DNA evidence to crack the cold case.
Houston police have made an arrest in connection with a 2007 murder case. According to a release, 64-year-old Anthony Darrell Lankford is charged with murder in connection to the death of 43-year-old Bethal Rawls. Police said they were called out to the 10200 block of Bissonnet Street in November 2007 after a concerned family member entered the apartment to check on Rawls and found her dead. Officials said Rawls had suffered multiple injuries.
FOX 26 Houston is now on the FOX LOCAL app available through Apple TV, Amazon FireTV, Roku, Google Android TV, Samsung TV, and Vizio!Authorities stated that at the time of the homicide, several persons of interest were investigated, but were eliminated via DNA evidence. Earlier in this year, in 2024, investigators reexamined the case and developed an additional male person of interest, Lankford, based on the victim's phone records and other evidence in the original investigation.
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