Authorities in southeast Texas say a Kansas City, Kansas, man has been arrested on a murder warrant in a nearly four decade old case.
Montgomery County Sheriff's Lt. Scott Spencer said Thursday that Thomas Darnell, 75, was arrested Monday in Kansas. He says Darnell is now being held in the Montgomery County jail without bond in the 1983 death of Laura Purchase after DNA connected Darnell to the crime.
Purchase’s slaying was one of about 600 confessed to and later recanted by Henry Lee Lucas, a drifter who died in a Texas prison where he was serving a life term for other slayings.