Blood-stained carpet leads to woman's arrest in Texas couple's 2005 killing: "After 17 years, it feels good"
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Authorities have arrested a woman in the killing of a Texas couple who was found beaten to death in their home more than 17 years ago.
Shelley Susan Thompson, 41, has been charged with capital murder in the April 2005 deaths of Antonio Rodriguez, 80, and his wife Luz, 77. The couple's daughter, Carolina Tejeda, found them in their home in Cleveland, located about 45 miles northeast of Houston.
"After 17 years, it feels good," Tejeda told KHOU-TV in Houston.
Ashley White received her earliest combat action badge from the United States Army soon after the first lieutenant arrived in Afghanistan. The silver military award, recognizing soldiers who've been personally engaged by an attacker during conflict, was considered an achievement in and of itself as well as an affirming rite of passage for the newly deployed. White had earned it for using her own body to shield a group of civilian women and children from gunfire that broke out in the midst of her third mission in Kandahar province. All of them survived. She never mentioned the badge to anyone in her battalion.