Colleyville police believe a father and son killed a 72-year-old woman for one reason: to collect money from a million-dollar insurance policy she didn’t even know about.
“I’ve been doing this for 27 years. This is one of the most complex cases that I’ve ever been involved in,” Colleyville police Chief Mike Holder said in a news conference this afternoon.
Anita Fox, an Alvarado resident who worked as a housekeeper in Colleyville, was found dead on Sept. 23. An arrest affidavit states she died of multiple stab wounds and blunt force trauma.
One of the suspects, 26-year-old Bernard Joseph Gorman, was arrested in Davenport, Florida this morning. He will be extradited to Tarrant County to face a murder charge in Fox’s death.
His father, Gerard Gorman, was found dead in a hotel room in Harris County, just outside Houston, last month. Police believe he died of natural causes.
Colleyville police allege that Bernard Gorman helped his father plan Fox’s murder, and that the pair planned to collect Fox’s life insurance benefit after killing her.
Authorities are still trying to figure out how the Gormans knew Fox, and why they allegedly targeted her, Holder said. He added that it seems Fox didn’t know about the insurance policy issued under her name.
Several agencies, including the FBI and the Texas Rangers, are conducting their own investigations — and trying to determine if Fox’s slaying was part of a larger criminal ring, Holder said.
“This was a complex, very far-reaching case,” he said.
Fox’s killing was Colleyville’s first homicide in more than two decades.
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