Mary Moore Searight, 86, a prominent landowner and philanthropist, was found in her home in Paris, Texas, where she had been badly beaten, strangled and sexually assaulted.

Texas DPS said it identified a man connected with a 1996 cold case of a woman who an Austin park was named after.

Modern DNA testing led to an arrest of David Paul Cady Jr. in connection with the 1996 murder of Mary Moore Searight, the ...

TEXAS - The Texas Department of Public Safety says they've cracked the 1996 cold case murder of an elderly woman in North ...

Mary Moore Searight, a prominent landowner and benefactor, was killed in 1996 at her home in Paris, Texas. In 2023, DNA obtained from a tenant, David Paul Cady Jr., linked him to her final moments ...

David Paul Cady Jr. has been formally charged in a 1996 cold case murder. DNA evidence has tied him to the death of Mary ...

Texas cold case was solved when David Paul Cady Jr. was indicted for the murder of Mary Moore Searight using DNA evidence ...

Mary Moore Searight spent decades in Austin before moving back to her hometown where she was eventually murdered.

Using modern evidence testing, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) Crime Laboratory Division has now identified the man investigators believe is responsible for the decades-old cold case ...

According to DPS, 86-year-old Mary Moore Searight was murdered in Paris, Texas, on Aug. 18, 1996. DPS said the man was identified using modern evidence testing. The man, later identified as 54 ...

It's been nearly 30 years since 86-year-old Mary Moore Searight was found dead in her North Texas home. Searight was found sexually assaulted, badly beaten and strangled, but somehow still alive.