A Texas real estate agent has been arrested and charged with capital murder in connection with a 2012 cold case in which a woman was stabbed nearly 100 times. Mayra Velasquez, 42, was booked into the Tarrant County Corrections Center on 17 July, more than a decade after the killing, and is being held without bond. The case highlights how advances in cold case investigations can lead to arrests many years after a crime, even when a suspect appeared to be living an ordinary, and reportedly well-travelled, life in the intervening years.

The victim, 32-year-old Irasema Chavez, was found stabbed to death in her apartment in 2012, though the article does not detail how investigators eventually linked Velasquez to the killing. Velasquez faces the most serious charge available under Texas law, capital murder, and remains in custody as the case proceeds.