Overview
- The case has been named a featured Texas Rangers cold case to draw new leads.
- The Houston Police Department and Texas Rangers report an active investigation and say community members may hold crucial information.
- Evidence has been submitted for contemporary DNA analysis, and no arrests have been announced.
- Estella Salinas, 31, and her son, Andrew, 14, were found strangled near White Oak Bayou by the Pinemont Bridge on Dec. 25, 1980.
- Witnesses last saw them in a blue 1972 Mercury Cougar near Cavalcade and the US-59 northbound frontage road, and relatives later found the car near Cavalcade and the Eastex Freeway with the keys and personal items inside.