An Oklahoma man originally accused of killing a mom of three in 2014 is now being re-charged after new evidence has come to light.
Percy Williams, 56, was arrested and booked on Friday night on first degree murder charges related to the 2014 stabbing death of Helen Elizabeth Johnson. Tulsa County Jail records confirm that Wiliams was arrested at 9:50 p.m and is currently being held in the jail without bond.
Johnson, a 56-year-old mother of three, was discovered in her apartment with multiple stab wounds by the Orchard Parks Apartments manager in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Febrary 21, 2014, according to Oklahoma Cold Cases. Her body was badly decomposed. OCC described her as a "wonderful cook and spent time volunteering at the crossroads community center."
Williams was arrested and accused of stabbing Johnson to death in 2014 but the charges were dropped without prejudice in October 2015, according to multiple reports, citing issues with the evidence.
Now, A new probable cause affidavit obtained by News9 alleges that Williams was the last person to see Johnson alive, and at the time of the killing was wearing an ankle monitor that placed him at her apartment around her time of death.
"When you have an unsolved case, it kind of eats away at you," Lt. Watkins, a Tulsa homicide detective, told News9, adding that the department is confident new DNA evidence will bring a close to Johnson's case.
"Our cold case unit is doing a lot of backtracking on old cases to find out if there is DNA that was forgotten, overlooked, or collected at a time when we didn't know the DNA was important," Watkins said.
