Murder in a small town

ITALY – Cold cases are not always as easy to solve as in the movies or as how we see it played out in one-hour television shows. 

That goes for an almost three-year-old murder in Italy, Texas too.

Determined to be a murder as noted on the Italy PD’s offense report, the victim was Richard Earl Wilson, a 59-year-old black male who was found dead in the 700 block of Williams Street on July 13, 2018.

Now Italy police are hoping a new geo-tracking device can help them get a little closer to solving the case.

This involves partially pings and pongs to cell towers and the use of mobile phones for possible tracking.

As technology advances, indeed it does become harder to get away with murder. 

And as Italy police believe, “someone has the answer.”

The city’s police department offense report indicated Wilson was found with blood “coming out of the victim’s nose and back of head.” 

There was also an unnamed man at the scene when police arrived attempting to perform CPR on the victim, but to no avail.

Both the Ellis County Sheriff’s Department and the Texas Rangers were called to the scene to investigate alongside the Italy Police Department.