DNA match helps find murder suspect seven years later

(11/15/05 - KTRK/HOUSTON) - It has taken seven years but there's finally an arrest in a woman's brutal murder.

Homicide detectives say Marco Garcia, 29, sexually assaulted and beat to death Brandi Brooks, 36. Her body was found by an industrial plant in northeast Houston back in 1998.

Detectives had no leads until Garcia was sentenced to 25 years for an aggravated robbery and home invasion and had to submit DNA. It matched that from the murder scene.