Identified! TX - Harris Co., Human remains in burlap sack, Jul'95 - Ruth Weibel

At the time, Douglas was thirty-nine years old and Earlene was thirty. If they're both still alive, Douglas is now seventy-nine and Earlene is seventy. And if they're still together, they will have been happily married for forty years.

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Husband confesses to killing wife in '95
By STEVE BREWER
The Houston Chronicle
June 20, 2000

Detectives say nobody missed Ruth Emily Weibel until her sickly 70-year-old husband thought he was facing death and decided to confess to her 1995 slaying.

Now, the unidentified remains found five years ago in a burlap sack have a name, and the Harris County Sheriff's Department "cold case squad" has made another arrest for an all but forgotten killing.

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bflocket said:

Another thing...

Why in the Hell was she "Identified" just now???

The news story from the other site that I quoted talks about the "identification" of the bones and it was from 2000.

Were they waiting for DNA or something?
Or was DoeNet just super-late in getting the news?

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outofthedark said:

DN mentioned that it was a "tentative" ID on her profile. It is possible that LE was still looking for next of kin.

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