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发帖数: 2555 | 1 DALLAS — An ex-physician has been charged with capital murder in the
February death of a woman who was left incapacitated in 1988 after being
sexually assaulted and strangled in a case that a team of prosecutors,
investigators and victim advocates funded by a federal cold case grant
helped reinvigorate. George Guo, a former prisoner who is a registered sex
offender, was arrested Wednesday in Houston in connection to the June 1988
attack on Dr. Katherine Bascone, according to the Dallas County District
Attorney's Office.
The 56-year-old was being held Thursday on a $5 million bond in the Dallas
County Jail.
Bascone suffered a brain injury because of the strangulation, leaving her
blind and needing lifetime care. She died in February, and a medical
examiner ruled her death a homicide.
An affidavit shows evidence from the scene and hospital was tested at the
time, but it did not lead to the identification of a suspect. After Bascone'
s death, it was resubmitted and DNA evidence identified Guo as the
perpetrator, the document says.
Last week, Bascone's sister spoke with authorities and said the assault on
Bascone along with chronic disabilities "had been devastating to the entire
family and changed their lives forever," according to the affidavit.
Guo was convicted in 1991 for burglary of a habitation after breaking into
the apartment of a student who attended Southern Methodist University in the
Dallas area. Authorities broke down the apartment door and caught Guo with
condoms, a ski mask, military tear gas and syringes filled with sedatives,
according to prosecutors.
The suspect is a graduate of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical
School in Dallas, prosecutors said, and was a licensed physician at the time
of the break-in.
Guo also was convicted of burglary of a habitation with intent to commit
sexual assault in a 1999 incident in which he was caught breaking into a
girl's residence, the district attorney's office said in a statement.
He was sentenced to 14 years in prison. He was released in 2013.
Online records don't list an attorney for Guo.
The district attorney's office said a team within the office worked with
authorities in Highland Park, the wealthy Dallas enclave where Bascone was
attacked three decades ago, to investigate and file the criminal charge. The
team is funded by a Department of Justice grant that allows the office to
prosecute and investigate sexual assault cases that have gone cold.
On Thursday, Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson praised the team'
s efforts and said her office remains committed to pursuing such cases.
"We are not going to give up," she said.
Her office said the federal grant funds two victim advocate positions and
two investigator positions, along with two prosecutor positions. |
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