Chip Chick
Her clothing hadn’t been lost or damaged, which is sadly the situation sometimes with evidence pertaining to older cases.
The Fort Worth Police Department sent Carla’s clothes to a lab that was able to use innovative techniques to build an entire DNA profile for Carla’s killer.
Now, it was a matter of figuring out who the DNA belonged to. Police proceeded to run this DNA profile through a few different genealogy databases in the hopes of finding a match.
They ended up getting one…the match was connected back to the McCurley family. Remember Glen, one of the suspects police had on their radar from the get-go? His last name was McCurley.
Glen had a wife and two children. He was a quiet family man, well-liked in his neighborhood.
He lived an absolutely average life in the 46 years after Carla’s life was ended, but on September 22nd, 2020, the Fort Worth Police Department announced they arrested Glen and charged him with Carla’s murder.
In July of 2020, detectives had dug through Glen’s trash in order to obtain his DNA to test against the profile of Carla’s killer. It was a match.
They went to speak with Glen, who again denied knowing anything about what happened to Carla. He denied doing it.
He gave detectives a sample of his DNA of his own free will, and after it was tested, it again came up as a match to the DNA from Carla’s clothes.
Weirdly enough, police have mentioned that the letter written and sent to detectives has no connection to Glen, but there’s no denying the DNA does.
