The savage murder committed in 1984 was solved thanks to the persistent struggle of her best friend, who decided to become a private investigator to find the culprit because the police abandoned the case.
Angela Samota was brutally murdered on October 13, 1984 in Texas. He was 20 years old and a student of computer science and electroengineering at Dallas Southern Methodist University.
His bloody body was found naked, he was crossed on the bed and his legs were hanging. He had 18 stab wounds, injured his liver, lungs and broke his heart.
However, the barbarity does not end here, his heart was ripped off and placed on his chest. An autopsy revealed she was raped while being murdered.
The young woman was buried in Pla Cemetery in Yellow, Texas, according to an Infobae publication.
Tonight, Angela went out with her friends Russell Buchanan and Anita Kadala. Her boyfriend Ben McCall did not accompany her because she had to get up early for a job she had the next day.
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Angela was driving a Toyota car and after midnight she left the nightclub with her friends. She went to leave them at home, went to her boyfriend’s apartment to greet him, and then went to his apartment.
At 1:45 she calls her boyfriend and tells him that there is a man at the door who has asked her to use the bathroom and the phone. He asks her to stay talking on the phone, but then hangs up and promises to call her back.
When Bess murdered Angelica she was on parole. He is now sentenced to death awaiting a date for his execution. Photo Texas Police Department
The last promise that Angela could not fulfill, Ben tries to communicate with her several times and not receiving an answer goes out to look for her. Arriving at Angela’s apartment she gets no answer, tries to open it but the door is locked and she decides to call the police.
“Officer Janice Crowther attends at 2.17am. A police duo goes to the scene. They notice that Angela’s Toyota Supra car is parked outside, but no movement is seen inside the department. the window, they’ve already seen that the shoes Angela wore tonight are in the kitchen.The officer gets the keys to the building manager’s office.Janice’s police partner enters first.While she’s in the living room she hears him shout from the bedroom, ‘Hey Janice, I found her,’ “Infobae slogans.
Sheila Gibbons, Angela’s best friend
Angela’s best friend was Sheila Gibbons, they had met in 1982, on her first day of college in Dallas. They were roommates and became great friends. Two years later, when Angela was brutally murdered, Sheila was desperate to work with the detectives.
The two had no parents and this helped them create a strong bond of friendship. When Angela was murdered Sheila’s life got frustrated, she left college, got depressed and her only interest was to help find her friend’s killer.
However, it took years to resolve the case and she had to become a private investigator so that Angela’s case would not go unpunished.
From the beginning, police identified three suspects: Russell Buchanan, a 23-year-old architect who went out tonight with Angela; Ben McCall, Angela’s boyfriend and her ex-boyfriend.
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Buchanan lived near Angela, could get to her condo on foot, and it was disturbing to investigators. In addition, he was a non-secretary, (a person who has a genetic mutation that allows his blood type not to appear in his fluids) and investigations revealed that Angela’s killer was of this type. because the attacker’s semen and saliva did not identify the blood type.
This detail excluded the young woman’s boyfriend and ex-boyfriend from the list of suspects. However, over time nothing was proven to Buchanan, although even Sheila met with him at the request of investigators to investigate the case.
“My mother was shocked, but Russell came to pick me up and we went to a place called August Moon. I was nervous and not acting normally, thinking, ‘I’m sitting on the side of a murderer’ because, of course, I thought he was the culprit, “Sheila said in a report.
Russell told him that he had traveled to Houston to see his parents the same morning Angela’s body was discovered. And he assured her that he did not find out anything until he returned to Dallas. The story Russell had told the police matched one hundred percent. The young student passed the lie detector satisfactorily.
Detectives did not gather evidence to charge him.
Sheila did not stop chasing those responsible for the investigation, she called them every day. She even became so friendly with the investigators and invited one of them to her wedding.
“(…) The detectives believed that, in time, I would disappear. The most normal people would have given up and continued with their lives. But I didn’t. I thought there was something wrong and, I just didn’t accept a ‘no’ in response. So I kept yelling. “
Sheila visited Angela’s grave when she solved the case. Photo Courtesy of Dallas Cemetery / Illustrative and non-commercial image https://bit.ly/3wVtkw6
Time passed and in 2004, twenty years after Angela’s murder, Sheila lived in Tennessee and had two children. One night while working on his Bible studies he had a vision that would mark a before and after in the investigation of the case:
“I looked to the right, and there was Angie. I thought, am I dreaming? Am I asleep? What’s going on? (…) There were no words, only that she was there and her big smile ( …) I have a lot of faith and I believe in signs, and at that moment I thought: the time has come.I leaned over my nightstand and picked up the phone to call the Dallas Police Department.I ask for the detective I knew and I left him a message.He never returned any of the calls I made to him.This man knew me well enough because he had been invited to my wedding but he never called me.He left me a taste bitter (…) The most discouraging part was that I was told that in twenty years no one had called, just me.Not a single person.How can someone die so violently and no one say and want to know for what or who was it? That still makes me cry. “
After that, she decided to study to become a private researcher.
“I told my husband that I would become a private detective. (…) In the evening, after dinner, my eldest son would read to me all the laws of the state he had to teach me and I would recite them. I took it as if I was going to go to Harvard or Yale, “he said.
However, the excitement didn’t last long: “I thought the police would sit down to work with me now that I had my detective license. How stupid I was! They didn’t care at all.”
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He told People that in all these years he had called the Dallas police about 750 times and in one of those many calls he had been told that the test kit had been lost in a flood.
He eventually got the case re-examined and Detective Linda Crum was appointed in charge of the case. Sheila assured that this change was positive for the investigation.
“Having Linda Crum involved changed the trajectory of the case by one hundred percent. I think female investigators are better, overall, because of their great commitment. Having her was a real plus.”
22 years later, in 2006, the detective reported that she had Angela’s nails, the aggressor’s semen and blood. Nothing was lost and newer techniques were now available to compare DNA with thousands of other DNA collected in databases.
“They had nails in Angie’s hands, so it was obvious she had resisted (…) She was excited because she knew this was going to be key: in 1984, recent DNA testing was on her initial phase, but 20 years later DNA had become a very powerful forensic tool, ”Sheila said.
Three years later, the detective informed Sheila that he had identified the attacker.
Sheila believed she was going to hear the name she had always associated with crime: Russell Buchanan. But no, the name sounded completely unknown to him. The blunt DNA result pointed to a man named Donald Andrew Bess Jr., who had been born, in 1948, in Arkansas.
the beast
In October 1984 when Angela was murdered, Bess was 36 years old and on parole. In 1978 he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for kidnapping and rape, for when he was identified as the culprit in Angela’s murder, Bess was back in prison with life in prison for another kidnapping and rape in 1985. .
When the trial for Angela’s murder in 2010 was taking place, other women testified that they had been raped by him. Even his ex-wife stated that Bess had abused her and her children during their marriage between 1969 and 1072. This man was a ferocious serial predator.
Sheila attended the trial and had the satisfaction of hearing the sentence on June 8, 2010: He was found guilty and sentenced to death. His appeals, filed since then, were dismissed. He waits, without a date for execution, in the row of Polunsky’s death from prison.
“The number 999,559 is printed on his clothes and is called The Beast. The number of the Beast, say those who always want to read something more in the matches, are these first three digits (999) inverted (666) of the plate of convict “, it is read in the publication of Argentine means.