The Dallas Police Department announced that detectives solved a sexual assault cold case that had remained unsolved for more than a decade through the Department of Justice’s Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Detective Elizabeth DeAngelis, who began leading Dallas’ SAKI efforts in 2021, received a DNA match in February 2026 on one of the department’s oldest cold cases. She partnered with Detective Sara Sheerin to reopen the investigation, reinterview victims and collect additional DNA evidence. <\/p>\n
Detective Carlos Cardenas later assisted by interviewing a suspect and obtaining additional testimony.<\/p>\n
Investigators combined the new evidence with DNA results and identified 35-year-old Jarvis Pierce as the suspect. The Dallas Police Fugitive Unit arrested Pierce in June 2026, and he was charged with sexual assault. <\/p>\n
Detectives are continuing to investigate whether Pierce may be connected to other cold cases.<\/p>\n
The department credited Detectives DeAngelis, Sheerin and Cardenas for their work, saying their efforts helped provide long-awaited justice for victims and highlighted the value of the SAKI program in solving cold cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dallas Police Department announced that detectives solved a sexual assault cold case that had remained unsolved for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":927743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,4219,1596,29401,5564,168924,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-927742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-america","tag-crime","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-police-department","tag-dna","tag-sex-assault","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116901182576916862","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}