More than 35 years after 64-year-old Johnnie Allbritton was found shot to death in his Texas home, his wife has been arrested in connection with the killing.
The Leon County Sheriff's Office announced in a statement this week that they have indicted 84-year-old Norma Allbritton for murder, thanks to reviewers from the reality TV show "Cold Case," which spent "countless hours investigating, reviewing, and preparing this case for grand jury."
Johnnie Allbritton took five gunshots to the chest and back on May 14, 1984. Authorities believed at the time that he was killed by a burglar during a home invasion, according to the Buffalo Express.
But investigators had also held enough suspicion about Norma Allbritton that they scheduled her for a lie detector test regarding the murder.
Mysteriously, she herself reported an accidental gunshot wound to the chest just before the polygraph appointment, and it was never rescheduled.
