In the mid-2010s, Detective Gary Sweet of the Garland PD reopened the Barbara Villarreal investigation.

He recognized that there was DNA testing that could be accomplished.

Blood on the interior of the sliced handball glove and from the blood drips on the front porch still remained in evidence.

Sweet arranged for updated testing of these items, which confirmed that the origin of the blood

was from an unknown male for whom a profile was obtained.

Sweet arranged for the ground of the Entronedocas and the Texas State DNA database.

I imagine he was surprised when no hits were obtained.

But on second thought, I'm not sure how surprised he was.

He was the first modern investigator who

began to question the whole faux identity of Barbara's husband and what it meant for the case.

Garland PD Detective William Elstrom was also assigned to the FBI's violent crime task force,

which at the time was starting to tackle cold case sexual assaults and homicides using DNA snip testing and IGG.

The Garland PD reached out to FBI Special Agent Randy White, who identified Barbara's case as one that would qualify.

They had blood samples and evidence that could be subjected to modern testing.

Agent White facilitated the development of a snipIP profile from the blood on the inside of

the cut glove and the drops on the porch, and the SNIP information directly undercut the story

that Domingo Villarreal had told the police all those years ago. He had maintained that a white man

and a black man invaded his home and killed his wife. But the snip profile of the suspect showed

that he was Hispanic. The investigators decided that in order to pursue Barbara's case,

they needed to identify Domingo once and for all. On July 30, 2020, Garland Police Forensic

Investigator Katie Tucker and Detective Lucas Schoop met with DPS Ranger Daniel, Detective Hill,

and Lieutenant Hunt. At this meeting, they discussed the fact that Barbara's husband had been

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