Sheila Wysocki never gave up trying to find out who killed Angela Samota. The best friend of a woman whose murder went unsolved for more than two decades has helped catch her killer after refusing to ...

DALLAS Jurors found Donald Andrew Bess guilty Monday in the 1984 sex-assault slaying of SMU student Angela Samota. The Dallas County jury deliberated only about an hour before returning the verdict ...

The phone started to ring. Sheila Gibbons raced into her mother's bedroom before the sound stopped and "picked it up, all happy." It was a Saturday morning in October 1984 and Gibbons, then 22, was ...

Read the original Dallas Police Department report on the 1984 murder of Angela Samota, featured in the two-hour Dateline report In the Middle of the Night from Friday, June 8th, at 9pm/8c. Subscribe ...

Sheila Wysocki knows what it feels like to lose someone close to her and have the murder case go unsolved. In 1984, her college roommate, 20-year-old Angie Samota, was raped in murdered. For more than ...

For more than two decades, Angela Samota's slaying was marked by unanswered questions. This morning, Samota's friends and family plan to share a courtroom with the convicted rapist who police and ...

Angela Samota isn't the only woman Donald Bess victimized. But unlike Samota, the other women escaped with their lives. One, a retired elementary school teacher, testified Tuesday during the ...

The best friend of a woman whose murder went unsolved for more than two decades has helped catch her killer after refusing to give up in a quest for justice. Sheila Wysocki and Angela Samota were ...