Aspiring Model Raped, Murdered, Body Discarded Behind Warehouse

Aspiring Model Raped, Murdered, Body Discarded Behind Warehouse

Mary Jane Thompson, 21, wants to be a model. She follows her dream to Houston and Los Angles, landing in Dallas. While waiting on her big break, Thompson works at a florist’s shop and a restaurant. She disappears after catching a bus, headed to a medical clinic, not knowing the clinic was closed. Thompson is never seen alive again. Her body is found two days later behind a Dallas warehouse on February 13, 1984, but her killer goes unnamed for more than 30 years. Now, police say advanced DNA techniques led investigators to Edward Morgan, 60. He is jailed on one count of capital murder,

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  • Matthew Mangino - Attorney, Former District Attorney (Lawrence County), Author: "The Executioner's Toll: The Crimes, Arrests, Trials, Appeals, Last Meals, Final Words and Executions of 46 Persons in the United States"
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  • Lisa M. Dadio - Former Police Lieutenant, New Haven Police Department, Senior Lecturer, Director of the "Center for Advanced Policing" at the University of New Haven's Forensic Science Department
  • Dr. Kendall Crowns – Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth), Lecturer: University of Texas and Texas A&M, Affiliated Faculty: University of Texas Medical Branch
  • Dave Mack - Crime Online Investigative Reporter
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