Cold Case: Closure At Last

The day was October 10, 2024. It was a day that Kristy Mooney had looked forward to for over 40 years. Though it took four decades, the matter was over.

It was on that day, in a District Court room in Rufugio, Texas, that Gordon Parsons made a formal plea changing his original plea of not guilty in the matter of the death of Robert Dale Mooney, to guilty in court and was facing sentencing. Robert was the father of Kristy, she was two years old when her dad was murdered.

Parsons and Arnold Huskey had escaped the Wyoming State Penitentiary on July 29, 1984. The two men were caught in Panama City...