Report: Dad charged with killing daughter and her girlfriend
PORT BOLIVAR, Texas -- A Houston man was indicted for capital murder Tuesday in the 2014 deaths of his daughter and her girlfriend, reports CBS affiliate KHOU.
James Cosby had previously been charged with tampering with evidence in the case. The mother of one of the victims told the station last year that Cosby was angry because his daughter was gay.
Britney Cosby and Crystal Jackson were found by a beer deliveryman next to a dumpster outside the Fisherman's Cove convenience store in Port Bolivar, a coastal Texas town about 60 miles southeast of Houston, in March 2014. Deputies said Cosby died from blunt force trauma and Jackson was shot to death. They were both 24-years-old and were said to be in a relationship.
Detectives believe the women were killed somewhere else and dumped at the store.
According to court documents, investigators say they searched Cosby's bedroom in his Houston home and found large areas of blood on surfaces throughout.
In a criminal complaint, detectives said they also noticed a missing window shutter on Cosby's home. They reportedly found a shutter matching the missing one covered in blood near where the victim's bodies were found. Detectives say Cosby's thumb print was on the shutter.
"He said it to me a few times that he did not like the idea of her being gay," said Loranda McDonald, Britney Cosby's mother, told the station last year.