Texas Rangers finally bring family justice in 1988 cold case murder

  • DAniel Andew MacGinnis. Photos Courtesy ofTexas DPS Media Communications.
    DAniel Andew MacGinnis. Photos Courtesy ofTexas DPS Media Communications.
  • Patricia Ann Howell Jacobs.
    Patricia Ann Howell Jacobs.
AUSTIN – More than 30 years after the crime, the Texas Rangers Unsolved Crimes Investigation Program (UCIP) has helped secure a conviction in the 1988 killing of Patricia Ann Howell Jacobs. On Sept. 20, 2022, Daniel Andrew MacGinnis entered a guilty plea and was sentenced to serve 20 years for her murder. That sentence will run concurrently with a previous 199-year sentence on unrelated drug and…

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