Interesting read, imo...
http://www.wsmv.com/story/16690408/local-woman-fights-to-solve-friends-cold-case-murder
Local woman fights to solve friend's cold case murder
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The Brentwood mom, a serial entrepreneur, was going to step out and do something she knew would stun her family.
She was going to become a private investigator.
"I wanted to make sure they got this guy," she said. "The problem was I wasn't a police officer or law enforcement. I had to be a private investigator for them to even look at the case."
So, Wysocki set out to obtain her private eye license and take on a 20-year-old cold case that is 700 miles away. And police don't want to help her.
Wysocki called again, this time as a licensed private investigator, armed with questions such as how well preserved was the DNA from the autopsy and what about old leads or could she meet with old suspects.
"It was closed. They had no intention of opening this case. They were not even going to look at it. So when I called 1 to 500 times, it was clear I wasn't going away," she said.
After hundreds of calls and conversations over a four period, police finally set up a meeting with an investigator.
"I will never forget what he said to me. He said, 'some cases are not meant to be solved and this is one of them. You need to back off.' And I thought at that moment I am not backing off," Wysocki said.
Finally, Dallas police reopened the case, and Wysocki demanded they test the DNA, even offering to pay for it.
Police relented and tested the DNA.
And they found a perfect match in five-time convicted serial rapist Donald Bess.
Sheila Wysocki finally put a face to the murder that haunted her.
"I felt like the room was full of evil. I never experienced something so big and horrible in my life, and I thought that was last person she saw. He was a beast of a man, and it just broke my heart," Wysocki said.
Bess was found guilty of Angie Samote's murder and sentenced to death.