Police: DNA ties murder suspect to Houston slaying

A capital murder charge is pending against a 33-year-old man in connection with the 1994 shooting and strangulation of a woman in her southeast Houston apartment, authorities said.

Edward George McGregor, 33, who is charged in Fort Bend County with murder in the 1990 slaying of a Missouri City woman, is now the prime suspect in the death of Edwina Latriss Barnum, 23, of Houston, police spokesman John Cannon said today.

Cannon said McGregor was linked to the 1994 death of Barnum through DNA evidence.

Police also have called McGregor a suspect in the deaths of two other women: Danielle L. Subjects, 28, who was killed Aug. 5, 2005, and Mandy R. Rubin, 25, who was slain Feb. 4. Both were strangled and beaten in their southwest Houston apartments. McGregor has not been charged in those cases.

McGregor, who was released on $250,000 bond in the Fort Bend County case in May, was arrested this morning at his Missouri City home, Cannon said.

In the Fort Bend County case, McGregor was charged with the April 17, 1990, stabbing death of Kim Wildman, 38, who was attacked in her Missouri City home just two doors down from McGregor's house.

McGregor was never a suspect in the Wildman case until Houston police approached Missouri City police, saying McGregor was a suspect in two Houston killings. Houston police obtained a DNA sample from McGregor and that sample was matched to the one taken from Wildman's body 16 years ago.