Texarkana police, DNA genealogist working to solve 1981 cold case | Texarkana | ktbs.com
Gordon Alexander, 13 and Karen Alexander, 14
''TEXARKANA, Ark. - Advances in DNA technology are being used to help solve a more than 40-year-old double murder case in Texarkana, Arkansas.
Some community members started a social media page to find justice for two young siblings brutally murdered in their home in 1981.
The group's efforts have recently captured the attention of local police and a leading DNA company.
A small memorial sits in an empty grass lot where Karen Alexander, 14, and her brother Gordon, 13, lived in 1981.
The house on Baden Street is gone, but the community has not forgotten.
The Justice for Karen and Gordon Facebook Page was created in 2019 to shine a light back on the case.
The group was contacted by Texarkana native and leading DNA Genealogist Cheryl Hester last September.''
''She says the father, Weldon Alexander, came home from working a graveyard shift at Cooper Tire on April 8, 1981, to find his son brutally murdered and his daughter critically injured.
Karen lived three days in a coma before dying.
Detectives say both siblings had been stabbed multiple times by a knife believed to have been the murder weapon left at the scene.''
"My feeling on it is if we can get a good profile. We can bring this home," said Hester.
The siblings were home alone because their mother was in the hospital at the time of the attack.
Detectives say they're still actively following leads on the Alexander case.
Anyone with information, should contact the Texarkana, Arkansas Police Department.''
Gordon Alexander, 13 and Karen Alexander, 14
''TEXARKANA, Ark. - Advances in DNA technology are being used to help solve a more than 40-year-old double murder case in Texarkana, Arkansas.
Some community members started a social media page to find justice for two young siblings brutally murdered in their home in 1981.
The group's efforts have recently captured the attention of local police and a leading DNA company.
A small memorial sits in an empty grass lot where Karen Alexander, 14, and her brother Gordon, 13, lived in 1981.
The house on Baden Street is gone, but the community has not forgotten.
The Justice for Karen and Gordon Facebook Page was created in 2019 to shine a light back on the case.
The group was contacted by Texarkana native and leading DNA Genealogist Cheryl Hester last September.''
''She says the father, Weldon Alexander, came home from working a graveyard shift at Cooper Tire on April 8, 1981, to find his son brutally murdered and his daughter critically injured.
Karen lived three days in a coma before dying.
Detectives say both siblings had been stabbed multiple times by a knife believed to have been the murder weapon left at the scene.''
"My feeling on it is if we can get a good profile. We can bring this home," said Hester.
The siblings were home alone because their mother was in the hospital at the time of the attack.
Detectives say they're still actively following leads on the Alexander case.
Anyone with information, should contact the Texarkana, Arkansas Police Department.''
