Lubbock Police say they tracked down a suspect in a more than 20-year-old homicide from a hair left in the victim's bed.
Reynaldo Rey, 48, is accused in the 1989 death of 93-year-old Minnie Elkins. Thursday, a police affidavit, with more details was made public. Authorities interviewed 37 suspects from 1989 to 2004. It wasn't until April 26th of this year that a DNA match linked Rey to the crime. Detectives submitted evidence at the beginning of the year and got a hit on a California database.
The affidavit states that Rey had 12 documented arrests in Lubbock and Lubbock County between 1981 and 2003. Investigators describe his criminal history as violent. It includes kidnapping and assault. Further research into the arrests also placed Rey in Elkin's neighborhood on multiple occasions.
Rey was arrested in Madera, California. He is jailed there waiting to be transferred to Lubbock.
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