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Lake sturgeon can grow to lengths of 8 feet and weigh up to 300 pounds. It says that a preliminary autopsy report indicates that 29-year-old Samantha Dean died of an apparent gunshot. Stacey Stites moved in with Fennell in an upstairs apartment in the same building as her mother. Deputy Bryan Reyes says the door to the vehicle was ajar and she was lying on the ground next to the car. Officials said the investigation began. Family of woman found dead in Bastrop County grave demands answers - KEYE "She was like the white tornado," she told "20/20." "That's exactly what they called her when she was little. Police found a broken piece of belt with the buckle attached, just outside of the drivers door. Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department responded around 12:50 p.m. Friday to the 20800 block of South Santa Fe Avenue, near the San Diego (405) Freeway, regarding a person down. Therefore, the analyst said, if someone matched the DNA, it would indicate they committed the murder. A resident called 911 early Sunday and summoned officers to a residence on 17000 block of Santa Suzanne Street . Im proud of the work my entire staff did on this case, Tew said. Raul Anthony Caballero was flown to the hospital by helic Photo of Sofia Vera. MyNewsLA.com wont sell your information and you can unsubscribe at any time. He said he had hoped the jury would hear the evidence and see he was innocent. Like I said I was trying to get logs to start a fire I pulled a log out of these bushes right here and never saw her exclaimed Waller. I described the man The police automatically knew who he was, Schlueter told 20/20. They presented [pictures of] six Africans Americans on a piece of paper. The Bastrop police chief questioned Fennell and said he was visibly shaken and concerned, but not in a state of panic, according to the police report. Brown said when Reed learned of Stites murder, Reed told him he was afraid because he knew he was a Black male having sex with a white girl in Bastrop, and how that could be seen as unacceptable. The Morehouse Parish Sheriffs Office said Lawhon called them to report he had shot his wife. It was awful, Oliver said. And the scientific facts and findings have proven that he is innocent. Fennell explained he was emotional and that all he could visualize was Stites lying dead in her casket. My son was arrested for the murder of Stacey Stites, said his mother Sandra Reed. Woman found dead in Bastrop car not killed by crash - YouTube All the latest on Orange County from Orange County. Kyle woman found dead in Bastrop County; man charged with murder Micheal Waller and his fianc still cant believe what happened on the edge of their property on Sunday afternoon. 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Ive stayed out here by this fire and watched just to make sure what if someone came back. Bastrop County Sheriff Maurice Cook, District Attorney Bryan Goertz and other county officials looked on last week as Dr. Harrell Gill-King, director of University of North Texas Center for Human Identification, extracted bone samples from the woman's decaying skeletal remains. Race played a big part. BASTROP COUNTY, Texas The Bastrop County Sheriff's Office is investigating after a teenage woman was found shot dead on FM 1704 last month. Most of the time the criticism is not founded on sufficient fact, so it is generally ignored. You kinda want to suspect the people nearest to her, Stacey Stites sister Crystal Dobbs said. 14 children and 1 teacher were killed in the Uvalde school shooting, officials confirm, Moriah Wilson murder: What we know so far about the crime and Kaitlin Armstrong, Example video title will go here for this video. Read below for previous information. I've been doing this a long time. Her body was found in the parking lot at 118 Stephen F. Austin Boulevard at about 2 a.m. Wednesday morning. I knew we were in trouble, Clay-Jackson said. When Fennell identified the belt found outside the truck as his fiances, he broke down, the report said. (Courtesy. Investigators would not confirm where she was shot or what kind of gun was used or if the murder was random or that she had been targeted. Rodney Reed has been serving time in prison for over 20 years. Rodney Reed, the man whose DNA matched that found in Stites body, was convicted of her murder and has sat on death row for 22 years. His DNA had been collected and stored in the system, though those charges were ultimately dropped.