Woman Lived Three Years With Dead Body

The Seguin Gazette

• A Seguin woman who had lived with her mother’s decomposing body for three years will be spending 30 years in prison, according to the Guadalupe County Attorney’s Office. Delissa Crayton pleaded guilty to charges of injury to a child and two counts of causing serious bodily injury to an elderly person last week. Seguin police found Jacqueline Louise Crayton, 71, in her bedroom in 2019 while investigating a child abuse case. Jacqueline Crayton had fallen in the home in 2016, but Delissa Crayton did not seek medical help for her and allowed her to die, authorities said. Delissa Crayton also had her daughter living in the home while the body continued to rot.

Giddings Times & News

• Adrianna Cardenas, 23 of Giddings, was trapped inside a vehicle for up to six hours, hoping that someone would eventually find her after running off the side of the road between Lexington and Tanglewood on Sept. 24. She was driving a 2009 Pontiac G6 sedan going north on Hwy. 77 between 1:00 and 2:00 a.m. and failed to drive in a single lane. The car went into the east ditch and traveled a short distance in the ditch before going across a dirt culvert and striking some trees, rolling over and coming to rest on its wheels on private property. Cardenas’ cell phone was out of reach and was stuck until a motorist saw the crashed car at 7 a.m. She was taken to the hospital with several rib fractures and a spine fracture, for which she had to have surgery.

The Brenham Banner-Press

• Commissioners agreed to accept a donation for road improvements to a section of road in Precinct 1. Texas Double B Ranch donated $16,909 to the county to be used to improve a section of Mertins Creek Lane. According to County Engineer Ross McCall, the donation will allow the county to slide funds to other road repairs throughout the county.

The Colorado County Citizen

There have been some new findings on the investigation and resignation of Eagle Lake’s Police Chief Wilton White, Jr. In documents received from Olson & Olson, L.L.P., the law firm for the City of Eagle Lake, it is alleged that several current Eagle Lake Police Department officers, including at least two newly hired officers and White himself, failed to have required firearms qualifications and fingerprinting completed. This means that several of the officers in question with the department whose motto is “Integrity is Everything” could have been acting as police officers without proper Texas Commission on Law Enforcement requirements.

The Gonzales Inquirer

• A Gonzales County man was arrested by the FBI in San Antonio after planning to provide support to ISIS and discussing possible terror attacks in the U.S., according to an unsealed criminal complaint which was filed in the Texas Western District Federal Court. Jaylyn Christopher Molina, of Cost, Texas, was arrested Sept. 21 and is facing charges of violating 18 U.S. Code 2339 B, conspiracy to provide material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization, according to federal court filings retrieved by the Inquirer. Molina is currently in custody without bond. A detention hearing held on Sept. 29 determined that Molina is to continue being detained without bond due to the nature of his charges. The detention order alleges that Molina could pose a flight risk if released.

The Bastrop Advertiser

• Tomas Sanchez-Solorzano, a Bastrop County man, pleaded guilty on Sept. 28 to first-degree murder and was sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing a woman with a knife and burying her in a heavily wooded area near Elgin. Sanchez-Solorzano was arrested Mar. 25, 2019, on an unrelated traffic charge, and as investigators questioned him about the disappearance of Yuridia Anaya Espinoza-Nava, a 33-year-old woman from Kyle whose family reported her missing a month earlier, he admitted to killing her. Kyle Detective Pedro Carrasco “told me that during the interview, Sanchez-Solorzano admitted to killing Yuridia Anaya Espinoza-Nava on March 22, 2019, by striking her with a knife. Later, Sanchez-Solorzano stated he cut her with the knife,” Bastrop County sheriff’s Deputy James Miller wrote in a probable cause affidavit. Espinosa-Nava was reported missing on Feb. 23, 2019, when family members said she never returned home after leaving for work the previous morning. Her car was found about a week later at a convenience store in Southeast Austin, officials said. Sanchez-Solorzano was the last person who Espinoza-Nava had been communicating with before her disappearance. On March 25, 2019, Sanchez-Solorzano, who lived near Elgin, directed investigators to a “gravesite marked with a crude cross in a heavily wooded area” off Lower Elgin Road where he told police he buried Espinoza-Nava.