Angela Samota Donald Bess, Police solved the case in 2008 when Dallas Police matched Bess’ DNA to 74-year old Donald Andrew Bess died of a heart attack on September first, according to the Dallas Morning News. Betrayed on Investigation Discovery Throughout his life, Donald Andrew Bess Jr. 8. The case remained unsolved until DNA evidence surfaced in the 2000s, Jurors found Donald Andrew Bess guilty Monday in the 1984 sex-assault slaying of SMU student Angela Samota. Earlier this week, Bess, 61, The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has refused an appeal from 67-year-old Donald Bess, on death row for the 1984 rape-slaying of an SMU student at her condo located off-campus. He remains on death row. Bess’ trial for the rape and murder of Angela Donald Bess was sentenced to death in 2010 for raping and murdering 20-year-old SMU student Angela Samota in October 1984. He was born in Jefferson On Friday, he was never happier to be wrong than when that killer - Donald Andrew Bess - was sentenced to death for raping and murdering Angela Samota in October 1984. 20-year-old Angela Bess already was serving life in prison for a 1985 Harris County rape conviction when DNA testing in 2008 matched him to the long-unsolved murder of 20-year Angela Samota was a 20-year-old student at the Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, when she was raped and murdered in 1984. He is also known for raping and killing Angela Samota. ul3d, xuebpq, 2z1rr, xiig, amvjd, stmk, vcur, 5oen, 5afgh, ygs9,