Texas, DNA and Mary Searight

Modern DNA testing led to an arrest of David Paul Cady Jr. in connection with the 1996 murder of Mary Moore Searight, the ...
Mary Moore Searight, a prominent landowner and benefactor, was killed in 1996 at her home in Paris, Texas. In 2023, DNA ...
Texas DPS said it identified a man connected with a 1996 cold case of a woman who an Austin park was named after.
Mary Moore Searight spent decades in Austin before moving back to her hometown where she was eventually murdered.