Episode 148 Velma Nesset Parts 1 and 2

64 year old Velma Nesset set out on April 19th, 1982, at 4:30 a.m. to walk to her job as a cleaning lady at the Permian Mall in Odessa, TX.  When she did not show up for work, people looked for her, and then called the police. Velma’s partially undressed body was found in a drainage culvert under the mall parking lot.  She had been stabbed, bludgeoned and raped.  The logical suspect, a mentally challenged man who worked at the mall, was tried for her murder. But after that, her case went cold.  A Texas Ranger reinvestigation in the mid 2000s isolated a male DNA profile, but the offender was not in CODIS.  When he was finally named through IGG, police tracked the man down, and he had quite a story to tell them.  According to him, he did not act alone.

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