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Murder suspect caught after 20 years
TUPELO - A man on the FBI's Most Wanted list and charged with murder in the deaths of his grandparents has been arrested in Texas, 20 years ago to the month after the brutal slayings in Tishomingo County.
Keir Dulay Sanders, 41, was arrested in San Antonio on Thursday while walking with a known drug dealer, René Salinas, an FBI spokesman, told the San Antonio Express-News on Friday. Sanders is being held without bond in the Bexar County Jail in San Antonio, Salinas said.
Sanders was charged with murder in the Dec. 29, 1985, slayings of his grandparents in the Goat Island community in Tishomingo County.
W.D. Crawford Jr. was found dead at his home along with his wife, Elma, who was stabbed and shot in the abdomen but still conscious when authorities arrived.
An autopsy in 1985 found that Mr. Crawford died of brain hemorrhaging caused by a beating which authorities believe was inflicted by a hammer found at the scene. Mrs. Crawford died several weeks later from her wounds, but what she wrote before she died was what initially led police to the couple's grandson.
"The reason he was the only suspect was because (his grandmother) had written K.D. in blood on the wall with her own hand," Tishomingo County Sheriff Glenn Whitlock told The Associated Press late Friday.
She also reportedly wrote the word "shotgun" in her blood. Authorities in 1985 said they believed a shotgun was used in the crime.
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TUPELO - A man on the FBI's Most Wanted list and charged with murder in the deaths of his grandparents has been arrested in Texas, 20 years ago to the month after the brutal slayings in Tishomingo County.
Keir Dulay Sanders, 41, was arrested in San Antonio on Thursday while walking with a known drug dealer, René Salinas, an FBI spokesman, told the San Antonio Express-News on Friday. Sanders is being held without bond in the Bexar County Jail in San Antonio, Salinas said.
Sanders was charged with murder in the Dec. 29, 1985, slayings of his grandparents in the Goat Island community in Tishomingo County.
W.D. Crawford Jr. was found dead at his home along with his wife, Elma, who was stabbed and shot in the abdomen but still conscious when authorities arrived.
An autopsy in 1985 found that Mr. Crawford died of brain hemorrhaging caused by a beating which authorities believe was inflicted by a hammer found at the scene. Mrs. Crawford died several weeks later from her wounds, but what she wrote before she died was what initially led police to the couple's grandson.
"The reason he was the only suspect was because (his grandmother) had written K.D. in blood on the wall with her own hand," Tishomingo County Sheriff Glenn Whitlock told The Associated Press late Friday.
She also reportedly wrote the word "shotgun" in her blood. Authorities in 1985 said they believed a shotgun was used in the crime.
More: http://websleuths.com/forums/newthread.php?do=newthread&f=7