Arlington Police say genetic geneaolgy helped them solve a 2012 cold case
A renewed push by Arlington's cold‑case unit has apparently solved one of the city's most brutal homicides, 14 years after police say a woman was stabbed nearly 100 times in her apartment.
Arlington police have charged Mayra Velasquez, 42, with capital murder in the 2012 killing of Irasema Chavez, 32. Velasquez is being held in the Tarrant County Jail.