DNA testing led to a breakthrough in an Ector County cold case earlier this year; now, justice has been served more than four decades later, thanks to the hard work of the Texas Department of Public Safety and the Texas Rangers.

Billy Wayne Ludwigson pleads guilty and receives a 20-year sentence for the 1982 murder of Velma Nesset, closing a 40-year-old Texas cold case.

A man has been convicted for the assault and murder of an Odessa, Texas mall employee 42 years ago, thanks to DNA analysis.

Billy Wayne Ludwigson will spend the next 20 years behind bars after pleading guilty to 64-year-old Velma Nesset's murder.

Texas (KAUZ) - The man who pled guilty to a decades-old cold case murder in Ector County will spend the next 20 years behind bars. After years of investigation, 62-year-old Billy Wayne Ludwigson was arrested and pled guilty to the murder of 64-year-old Velma Nesset.

A 40-year-old murder case has been solved after a Texas man pled guilty last month and was sentenced to 20 years in prison, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS). Billy Wayne Ludwigson,

AUSTIN - The Texas Rangers have announced the conclusion to a cold-case murder investigation that took 40 years to crack. On Wednesday, The Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) announced that Billy Wayne Ludwigson,