A DNA error and an overlooked note: Family express outrage over police investigation of Texas woman’s killing
Gloria Lofton’s death at her Texas home in 2019 had been a mystery — until a murder suspect allegedly confessed to her killing and others last year.
Gloria Lofton’s death at her Texas home in 2019 had been a mystery — until a murder suspect allegedly confessed to her killing and others last year.
An autopsy in Lofton's death had been inconclusive. And relatives, who said authorities provided few details about the death, came to believe an alcohol-related accident may have been to blame.
Now, one of her daughters is furious after the Austin Police Department acknowledged this month that it did not act on key forensic evidence that could have linked the suspect, Raul Meza Jr., to Lofton’s death four years earlier.
And the daughter, Christina Fultz, said authorities appear to have missed another important clue that provided an even more direct and immediate link to Meza — a mysterious note that she said she and her sister found at Lofton’s home six days after her body was discovered.
The note, which has not previously been reported, identified Meza by name.
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