Dec 11, 2007 9:08 pm US/Central
Police Have Lead In Murder Of Elderly Woman In NRH
NORTH RICHLAND HILLS (CBS 11 / TXA 21) ―
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Texas Department of Public Safety
A mysterious murder has police searching for a brazen killer.
Someone
shot Marianne Wilkinson when she opened the door of her North Richland
Hills home Sunday night. The house is located on the 8400 block of
Spence Court.
Police hope they have now found a potential lead in the case.
Witnesses tell police two men were going door to door in the area before Wilkinson was killed.
Brian
Markwood said the men knocked on his door less than an hour before the
shooting. He said they were trying to sell mistletoe.
"It was
dark, and my initial reaction was, 'This is very strange,'" said
Markwood. "It looked like two pieces of leaves and bushes out of my
landscape."
Another neighbor said he was wearing a hooded
sweatshirt, just like the person who rang Wilkinson's doorbell and shot
her dead in her doorway.
That neighbor reportedly told Markwood that "she thought he was on drugs."
Police say the mistletoe peddler didn't go to every house, just a select few.
Also
on Tuesday, police found a cell phone on the corner of Spence Court and
North Tarrant Parkway. They don't know yet if it is related to the
crime.
Police are still looking for a person who was parked at the corner of Spence Court and North Tarrant Parkway Sunday night just before 8. Investigators believe that person saw the shooter peel out of here in a gold or tan car.
North Richland Hills Police Investigator Larry Irving said, "We've been getting calls from different people with different information about this offense. We're following up on everything we can."
Neighbors who spoke with CBS 11 said they hope police find her killer.
"She was a very active lady," said neighbor Dale Franklin. "Worked out in the yard all the time. Just real nice."
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