Advances in DNA testing led to a suspect’s arrest in the killing of Valerie Laguna, 26, who was found beaten to death in a cemetery in Cotulla, Texas, in 2005, the authorities said.
Valerie Laguna, whose 2005 murder in Cotulla, Texas, went unsolved for two decades, in an undated family photograph. Her father said she was known for “that big beautiful smile she had all the time.”