
14 years after woman was stabbed 100 times, her close friend was arrested in the Texas cold case
Investigative genetic genealogy helped identify Mayra Velasquez, 42, as the suspect in Irasema Chavez’s 2012 stabbing death.
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Investigative genetic genealogy helped identify Mayra Velasquez, 42, as the suspect in Irasema Chavez’s 2012 stabbing death.

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The arrest comes more than a decade after Chavez, 32, was found dead Jan. 20, 2012, inside her second-floor Arlington apartment with around 100 stab wounds.

Surveillance video from 2012 showed a hooded figure entering Irasema Chavez's apartment the night before she was found stabbed roughly 100 times.
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