“There were a lot of red flags.”īy 2017, a total of nine residents had been found dead and apparently robbed at the same complex. To her, her mother’s ring finger looked red and swollen, as if someone had “pried the ring off of her finger,” she recalled. She couldn’t stop staring at the photos of her mother, lying facedown on the scarlet carpet in a pool of blood. French’s daughter, Ellen French House, asked her siblings to take pictures of their mother’s body. But the Dallas Police Department closed the case without identifying the culprit or recognizing a pattern in the robberies and deaths. Two months later, Dallas detectives investigated the theft of the 18-karat gold wedding ring of Norma French, who had also died at Tradition-Prestonwood. In 2001, the Texas Legislature recognized the need to address unsolved murders, including serial killings, and authorized the Texas Rangers to create a specialized unit to assist local departments. Jennings called the police, but the patrolmen who arrived seemed uninterested in the missing ring or the passing of another elderly resident at the upscale complex. Her mother’s diamond-studded 18-karat gold wedding band was gone. The next day, August 19, 2016, Jennings found her mother’s body facedown on the floor of her fourth-floor apartment. That afternoon, the only sad note came when Corken expressed distress over the unexpected deaths of two friends at Tradition-Prestonwood Senior Living, the luxury complex where she’d moved in 2010. “She always got her own popcorn from the popcorn stand and put on just the kind of butter she wanted.” They leaned back in reclining seats, munched popcorn, sipped wine, and laughed out loud at a comedy that featured Meryl Streep singing hilariously off-key. “We always got a pepperoni pizza and split it,” Jennings said of their weekly ritual. Later, they caught a matinee at an upscale theater. On their last visit, Corken, who had tiny feet and hands, needed a new pair of slides, so they stopped at her favorite shoe store, the only one with a decent selection in size 5. Jennings went shopping at the Dallas Galleria with her mother, Leah Corken, an 83-year-old widow who had moved to Texas to live near her daughter. Too few police departments are effectively deploying their resources to stop them.
TEXAS UNSOLVED SERIAL KILLERS FREE
Homicide Cases in Texas Are Going Unsolved, Leaving Serial Killers Free to Murder Again
As more homicide cases go unsolved, the backlog of unsolved murders grows and serial killers are free to kill again.
Texas departments nationwide are solving a lower percentage of homicide cases than ever before.
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