COPS BUST PENA IN 1982 MURDER OF SHEREE STRONG

MANUEL Richard Pena is surely a prince among men. Over the past 30 years he has been accused of all kinds of violent acts against his family. In 1976, he shot a now ex-wife in the genitals during a spat, in 1989 punched his stepfather, 72, and in 2004 he beat his grandson, 7, so severely he gave the boy a bloody nose. And he always managed to pretty much walk away--until now.
On Friday, the 69-year-old headcase was charged with the 1982 murder of his then girlfriend, Sherri Strong. Cops found her in his house lying facedown,

HOUSTON STRANGLER OF TAMMY LYNN BOUNDS BUSTED

STRANGLED

HE strangled the life out of her and then her left her 14-month-old son to wander the dangerous Houston streets alone.
For 21-years the killer of Tammy Lynn Bounds, who was seven-months pregnant with her second child, has been walking around scott free, presumably thinking that he'd got away with the 1990 murder.
But this week, cops finally think they've got their man, after DNA linked them to the cold blooded killer, who throttled the life out of her and then dumped her body in a wooded area near her Houston, home.
A lengthy investigation was conducted into the 18-year-old's death and although Robert Lawrence Wilson came to the attention of investigators at the time because he had once resided at the same apartment complex as Bounds, with little to go on, they were forced to let him go.