Overview
- Dallas officers who responded to Georgia Avenue around 2:30 p.m. Sunday found 27-year-old Mariah Murray dead inside a freezer in an abandoned house.
- Police are treating the death as a homicide, have released no suspect or motive, and asked anyone with information to call Detective C. Fehrenbach at 214-671-3671.
- Dallas Fire-Rescue handled a fire at the same home hours after the discovery, and officials have not determined if it is related to the killing.
- Murray’s relatives visited the site this week, urged witnesses to speak up, and remembered her as a cheerful “good spirit.”
- The vacant house sits near the Illinois Avenue DART station, and neighbors say the property has drawn drug activity, highlighting safety concerns in the area.