First Published: 2:37 PM PDT, May 25, 2021
A self-proclaimed serial killer had once insisted that he was responsible for killing Purchase. But now police say they have found a 75-year-old man with a DNA match.
A 75-year-old Texas man was arrested in connection with a cold case involving a woman who was found strangled and set ablaze in a wooded area nearly 40 years ago, marking a twist in a drawn-out case after a notorious serial killer already confessed to the crime, authorities announced.
Henry Lee Lucas, also famously known as the Highway Stalker, falsely confessed to killing Laura Marie Purchase and was convicted of the crime in 1986, according to authorities.
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office in Texas announced that 75-year-old Thomas Elvin Darnell of Kansas City was arrested Thursday in connection to it.
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