La Porte County Sheriff's Office announces suspect in 1981 cold case murder

The La Porte County Sheriff’s Office says DNA evidence and advances in technology identified Carl David Phillips as the suspect in the 1981 murder of Juanita Boyd. Boyd, 31, was last seen at Snyder’s Corner Tavern in La Porte; her body was later found in her car, and investigators said she had been strangled and stabbed. Phillips died in 2017, so authorities say he cannot be charged.