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UTA Students Help Arrest Suspect in 34-Year-Old Arlington Murder Case
UT Arlington criminology students helped identify suspect Janie Perkins, leading to her arrest in a 34-year-old Arlington cold case involving the murder of Cynthia Gonzalez.
- On November 6, the U.S. Marshals North Texas Fugitive Task Force arrested 63-year-old Janie Perkins in Azle and she was charged with capital murder.
- At the start of the fall semester of 2025, Arlington Police Department gave the Cynthia Gonzalez case files to 15 students in UTA's advanced criminology course after a 2024 detective found no new leads.
- UTA students in the cold-case class combed through four to five hundred files, photos and reports, and Natalia Montoya's group identified Perkins after months of digging; original detectives had suspected Perkins and noted she failed two polygraphs and made incriminating remarks.
- This semester's UTA partnership produced the program's first arrest, and Jessica Roberts said, `I only learned about this program a couple of weeks ago,' adding she was shocked the case was solved.
- With no full-time cold-case unit, Arlington Police Department turned to UTA cold-case program to address crime labs and detective staffing gaps, while victims' families seek closure and hope for more case reviews.
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UT Arlington students in cold case investigations class help solve 34-year-old murder case
Cynthia Gonzalez left her Arlington home on Sept. 16, 1991 and wasn’t seen alive by her family again, according to police. The next day, Gonzalez’s ex-husband reported her missing. On Sept. 22, 1991, her body was found. She was shot multiple times and then left on private property off County Road 313 in Johnson County. Her body was already decomposing. Investigators identified her with fingerprints. Now, more than 34 years later, Arlington polic…
UTA students help Arlington police make 1991 cold case arrest
The Arlington Police Department has made an arrest in connection with a 34-year-old cold case. Cynthia Gonzales was reported missing out of Arlington and her body was found several days later in rural Johnson County.
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