A Convent Nun Murdered on Halloween — True Crime
Incompetent investigators, and a crooked pathologist, let a murderer go free, while the State of Texas killed an innocent man.
On October 31, 1981, a man broke into the St. Francis Convent in Amarillo, Texas. He then would rape, strangle, and stab Sister Tadea Benz 76, to death. Her body would be discovered that morning by another sister when Sister Benz didn’t attend 6:30 am mass.
Witnesses had seen a man with dark skin and black curly hair outside the Convent the night of the murder.
After examining the body and forensic evidence, it seemed this crime was related to another that had happened on July 9, close by on N Houston Street in Amarillo.
In that case, a woman named Narnie Cox Bryson 77, was raped and murdered in her home.
Besides the same MO, there was consistent evidence collected from both scenes. DNA in hair form, which was curly black and left by a Hispanic man, which is why officials had been searching for a Cuban refugee since that first murder in July.
They had also collected semen from Sister Benz, but since the pathologist didn’t have the proper equipment to analyze semen, he discarded it.
But having not found the Cuban refugee they suspected had raped and killed both women, they suddenly had…
