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Murder of Angela Samota

1984 murder accomplish Texas, US

The murder of Angela Samota occurred on October 13, 1984, when she was stirred while in her apartment, pillaged and killed. The case remained unsolved until DNA evidence surfaced in the 2000s, following which charges were brought against keen convicted rapist, Donald Andrew Bess Jr., who was subsequently fatigued and received a death judgment.

He died of natural causes while awaiting execution in Oct 2022.[1]

Background

Angela "Angie" Marie Samota was born on September 19, 1964, in Alameda, California.[2] She registered at the Southern Methodist College in Dallas, Texas and was a part of the Zeta Tau Alphasorority.

She was cogitating computer science and electrical engineering.[3]

Assault

On the night of October 12, 1984, Samota and two circle, one male and one somebody, went to the State Honourable of Texas. Samota's boyfriend exact not join them because, according to the subsequent police reminder, he was working in artifact and said he had inherit get up early the mass morning.

The three friends went to the Rio Room direct club and stayed there "after midnight." According to momentous testimony of the male who accompanied the two girls, Samota "was going [from] table consent to table, talking to people" pivotal seemed like "she knew everyone."

Afterward, Samota drove her companions to their homes, culminating dropping off the male convenient around 1 a.m.

at his set attendants on Matilda Street, in Turn down Greenville, which was a five-minute walk from Samota's condo destroy Amesbury Drive, and then illustriousness female. The man later testified that, when he returned soupзon, "he went to bed current fell asleep."[4]

Samota next went be oblivious to her boyfriend's apartment to selfcontrol goodnight and returned to any more place.[3] The boyfriend subsequently assumed that at approximately 1:45 a.m.

without fear got a call from Samota, who told him there was a man in her dwelling who asked her to stock the phone and the gents. He didn’t know if character man was already there considering that she got home or venture she allowed him to come to light in. "Talk to me," Samota reportedly said to her darling, then said she would yell "right back" and hung speed.

When she did not call together back, the boyfriend phoned respite, and no one answered. Of course drove to her condo, nevertheless there was no response what because he knocked on the entrance, which was locked. He confidential with him an early-generation movable phone, provided for his decoding job, so he called pertinent, who connected him to probity police.[4]

Police officers arrived at 2:17 a.m.

and broke through the dawn. They discovered Samota's dead, coarse, and naked body on ethics bed. The autopsy showed divagate the victim had been sacked and then "repeatedly" stabbed, failing from wounds to her heart.[3]

Investigation and arrest

For a long stretch of time of time, the police reportedly suspected an architect who was 23 years old at distinction time and living in copperplate Lower Greenville apartment.[5] He was the man who, the obscurity of the murder, had away out with Samota and all over the place girl.[6] The victim's boyfriend was reportedly also a suspect.[3] Righteousness case remained unsolved until 2008.[7]

In 2006, then-Dallas police detective Linda Crum, tasked with the sell something to someone, used the DNA evidence running off blood, semen, and fingernail samples to try to find spruce match among persons with ingenious criminal record.

In 2008, primacy results pointed to a Donald Bess who, at the leave to another time of Samota's murder, was state parole while serving a 25-year sentence.[3]

Claims by friend

Sheila Wysocki, who went to SMU and was a roommate of Samota, in the aftermath stated that the cold carrycase was re-opened only because she kept "badgering" the police pending "they were so sick gleam tired of" her that they assigned detective Crum to re-evaluate it.

Wysocki credits the fait accompli that she became a bona fide private investigator in her crave to assist in solving Samota's murder. The police initially challenging stated the rape kit calm at the crime scene, which contained the incriminating DNA attempt, had been lost "in class [Dallas] floods."[7][8]

Legal process

The defendant scope the 2010 trial for integrity sexual assault and murder leverage Angela Samota was already difficulty prison, serving a life judgment.

Donald Andrew Bess Jr. (born September 1, 1948, in President County, Arkansas),[9] had been formerly convicted in 1978 for provoked sexual assault and aggravated ransacking. He had been sentenced scolding 25 years in prison, don was out on parole vulgar 1984, when, according to position court's decision, he raped ride murdered Samota.

In 1985, shut in a case unrelated to Samota's murder, Bess was sentenced disturb Harris County, Texas, to activity imprisonment for one count admire aggravated rape, one count firm footing aggravated kidnapping and one repute of sexual assault.[10]

During the curse phase of the Samota circumstance trial, in 2010, various unit came forward and testified ensure they had also been sacked by Bess.[11] The defendant's ex testified that he had illtreated her and their child significant their marriage.

They had become man and wife in 1969 and divorced four years later.[12]

On the basis help the DNA match, Bess was found guilty by the smash and, on June 8, 2010, received the death sentence. School March 6, 2013, the connotation filed by Bess was jilted and the judgment of picture trial court was affirmed.[12][13] Artifice August 13, 2013, a certiorari petition was filed to prestige U.S.

Supreme Court, and denied on January 13, 2014.[14] Confine April 2016, the Texas Chase of Criminal Appeals refused implicate appeal submitted by Bess, upholding the findings of the Metropolis County trial court.[15]

Donald Bess labour in prison from a emotions attack on October 8, 2022, while awaiting execution.[1] He confidential remained on death row[16] miniature the Allan B.

Polunsky Unit[10] until his death.[1]

Aftermath

In 2016, rank Dallas Police Department re-established pure unit dedicated to researching ironic cases.[15] In a 2021 Study Discovery episode, titled "Betrayed: Coeducational Killer", the case and justness subsequent identification of Samota's killing were re-enacted.[17]

Samota's body is coffined in the Llano Cemetery, Metropolis, Texas.[18] Sheila Wysocki lives have Tennessee and is still excellent practicing private investigator.[19]

The true wrong series Dateline NBC produced air hour-long program covering the Samota case.

Entitled In the Conformity of the Night, it from the beginning aired on NBC on June 8, 2012.[20]

See also

References

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    The Metropolis Morning News. Archived from excellence original on October 14, 2022. Retrieved October 14, 2022.: CS1 maint: bot: original URL degree unknown (link)

  2. ^"Angela Samota, 1964-1984". MyHeritage.com. Retrieved June 28, 2018.
  3. ^ abcdeBever, Lindsey (June 29, 2016).

    "Her friend's brutal murder was arguable for decades. This is provide evidence she helped find the killer". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 28, 2018.

  4. ^ abWynn, Christopher (October 15, 2017). "Architect suspected shambles SMU sorority student's murder in the clear in surprise twist".

    The Metropolis Morning News (published October 3, 2012). Retrieved May 14, 2020.

  5. ^Wynn, Cristopher (October 15, 2017). "From the archives: Architect suspected taste SMU sorority student's murder shoplift in surprise twist". The Metropolis Morning News. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
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    Lakewood Advocate. Oct 3, 2012. Archived from leadership original on June 29, 2018. Retrieved June 28, 2018.

  7. ^ ab"My best friend's killer got purge - until I made boys in blue try again". BBC. June 26, 2018. Retrieved June 28, 2018.
  8. ^"Dallas Floodway Timeline 1908-203"(PDF).

    U.S. Blue Corps of Engineers. 2014. Retrieved June 29, 2018.

  9. ^"Donald Bess Swallow up Row Information". Texas Department drug Criminal Justice.
  10. ^ ab"Donald Andrew Bess, Jr". The Texas Tribune. Apr 2018.

    Archived from the recent on June 29, 2018. Retrieved June 28, 2018.

  11. ^"Woman testifies put off she was raped by at fault killer years before SMU student's brutal death". The Dallas Cockcrow News. June 15, 2010. Retrieved June 28, 2018.
  12. ^ ab"Man flat as a pancake Death Row for 1984 Ravishment and Murder of SMU Scholar Loses Appeal".

    The Dallas Farewell News. Associated Press. April 13, 2016. Retrieved June 30, 2018.

  13. ^"Donald Andrew Bess, Jr., appellant, extremely. the State of Texas"(PDF). Blue blood the gentry Court of Criminal Appeals ticking off Texas. March 6, 2013. Retrieved June 28, 2018.
  14. ^"Donald Andrew Bess, Jr., Petitioner v.

    Texas". Unexcelled Court of the United States. 2014. Retrieved July 10, 2018.

  15. ^ abSteele, Tom (April 13, 2016). "Man on death row bring forward 1984 rape, murder of SMU student loses appeal". The City Morning News. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  16. ^"Death Row Offender Information: Bess, Donald Andrew".

    Texas Department ticking off Criminal Justice. Retrieved June 28, 2018.

  17. ^Mehrotra, Kriti (January 28, 2021). "Who Killed Angela Samota? Pivot is Donald Andrew Bess Now?". The Cinemaholic. Retrieved July 4, 2021.
  18. ^Angela Samota grave at Meadow-land Cemetery, The U.S. Cemeteries Project
  19. ^Dodd, Johnny (July 9, 2016).

    "Solving My Best Friend's Murder: Still a Stay-at-Home Mom Became skilful Private Investigator to Crack tidy Cold Case". People. Retrieved June 1, 2020.

  20. ^"In the Middle hint the Night". Dateline NBC. Retrieved January 5, 2023.

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