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| 1980 Beating Death Solved |
| By shreveporttimes.com |
| Published: 03/25/2010 |
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MANSFIELD — An almost 30-year-old homicide forgotten by law enforcement officials appears to have been solved with the confession Monday of a man imprisoned for the past 17 years on an unrelated crime. "It's a cold case that just got overlooked," DeSoto sheriff's Lt. Robert Davidson said of the Nov. 1, 1980, beating death of Arthur Lee Gillyard. And it might have stayed that way if it were not for DeSoto sheriff's deputy who's spent the past eight months pouring through the outstanding felony warrants file in search of people wanted for past crimes. Sgt. James Clements found an arrest warrant issued June 9, 1981, after a grand jury indicted Ralph B. Adams with second-degree murder in Gillyard's death. Clements eventually tracked Adams to a Texas prison, where he has served 17 years of a 20-year armed robbery sentence. Davidson and Mansfield police Capt. Gary Hobbs went to the Texas Department of Corrections' Polunsky Unit in Livingston, Texas, on Monday to interview Adams. Read More. |
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