From The Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/04/AR2005110401315....

I'm still trying to deconstruct the following statement:

"'Because of his knowledge of the murder, I must assume that he knew he failed the polygraph,' Detective Kenny Seymour said."

Well I guess that just solves the case, then!

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Suspect in 1982 Texas Slaying Found Dead

The Associated Press
Friday, November 4, 2005; 3:21 PM

ROSENBERG, Texas -- A man committed suicide in a cemetery, days after he failed a lie-detector test in the unsolved shooting death of his sister-in-law more than 20 years ago, authorities said.

Authorities said they were looking for Ronald Lee Swallers, 66, to discuss the results of the polygraph test when his body was found Wednesday by a worker at Davis-Greenlawn Cemetery. He had shot himself in the chest.

   
Police believe Swallers shot Penny Swallers, 32, in the back in 1982.

Police had reopened the murder case in February for DNA testing not available in 1982. The DNA tests did not provide any new evidence, but police asked Swallers to take a lie detector test last week and it showed deception, authorities said in a news conference Thursday.

"Because of his knowledge of the murder, I must assume that he knew he failed the polygraph," Detective Kenny Seymour said.

Investigators would not comment about a motive for the killing.

Penny Swallers disappeared April 22, 1982, and a fisherman discovered her body, wrapped in a tarp, along the Brazos River the following month.

She had been last seen with her brother-in-law, who took her to have her car serviced for a trip to visit her parents. Ronnie Swallers told police at the time he became concerned when she did not show up to meet her parents, and he discovered she never picked up her car.