Donald Andrew Bess found guilty in 1984 slaying of SMU student. By dallasnews Administrator. ... Bess and Samota's family did not visibly react after State District Judge Carter Thompson read the ...

Donald Andrew Bess was sentenced this afternoon to die for the 1984 murder and rape of a Southern Methodist University student. Earlier this week, Bess, 61, was convicted of sexually assaulting ...

Donald Andrew Bess was awaiting execution for the 1984 rape and murder of Angela Samota when he died of a heart attack Oct. 8.(Vernon Bryant / Staff Photographer) A man on Texas’ death row for ...

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 ...

Donald Andrew Bess was already serving a life sentence when he was charged with capital murder in the death of Angela Samota two years ago. Samota was 20 when she was found in her bed with ...

Dallas police said Monday that Donald Andrew Bess has been charged with capital murder in the death of Angela Samota, who was 20 when she was found in her bed with multiple stab wounds.

Dallas police said Donald Andrew Bess has been charged with capital murder in the death of... Inmate charged in SMU student's 1984 stabbing death Chron Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...

DALLAS -- The trial got under way Wednesday for a prison inmate charged in the 1984 killing of a Southern Methodist University student in her off-campus apartment. Donald Andrew Bess, 61, was ...

DALLAS -- A bailiff's accidental discharge of pepper spray has disrupted a Dallas capital murder trial, leaving members of the victim's family and other court observers wheezing in a hallway. The ...