HOUSTON – The family of a cold case victim is finally getting justice after a man was charged with murder in connection to the deadly stabbing of their loved one.
Jorge Trevino Cardenas, 50, has been charged with murder. He is accused of stabbing 38-year-old Domitila Alvarez to death in 2009.
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On April 24, 2009 Houston police found Alvarez inside the office of her family’s auto repair shop suffering from multiple stab wounds.
At the time, investigators said they had minimal leads and could not solve the case.
In 2021, the HPD cold case division re-examined the evidence and identified Cardenas as the suspect through the use of DNA evidence.
Further investigation also found additional information that implicated Cardenas in the case. He was officially charged on Thursday.
Cardenas is currently serving a sentence in prison for an unrelated crime in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice William R. Boyd Unit prison.