DNA Helps Dallas Police Make Arrest In 2007 Murder Cold Case
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DALLAS (CBSDFW.COM) - After more than eight years Dallas police have arrested the person they say is responsible for beating Eliazar Flores to death. According to investigators, it was DNA that lead them to JoJo Wilson.
When police found Flores in a pool of blood on September 23, 2007 they thought he had been shot. After being taken to a local hospital, doctors discovered Flores had been severely beaten. He later died from those injuries.
In addition to the suspect assaulting Flores they had also stolen his truck. Police were able to recover it on the same day as the attack, but at a different location. Crime scene personnel were able to take DNA swabs and entered the information into the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) database.
It took from then until August of this year for CODIS hit to match the DNA. Genetic material identified the suspect as JoJo Wilson. Fortunately for police the 35-year-old was easy to locate, he was being held in the Dallas County Jail on unrelated charges.
Dallas police got a warrant to obtain suspect Wilson's DNA to confirm the match. Based on those results an arrest warrant was issued.
Wilson is charged with Capital Murder and remains in the Dallas County Jail.
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