The Senseless Murder of a New Mother

Lyla Reese
6 min readJun 13, 2022

A rogue tactic by a new Austin DA led to the arrest of a killer 33-years later after a DNA mistake for the murder of Laurie Stout.

Credit: Dallas Morning News (L: Robert Van Wisse and R: Laurie Stout)

On Tuesday, September 20, 1983, at 8:30 am, an office worker at First Banister Place in South Austin found Laurie Stout’s partially nude body on the men’s restroom floor.

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