On January 21, 1998, 28-year-old Linda Suzie Malek of Brazoria, Texas, was murdered during a home invasion in Bay City, Matagorda County. She was asleep in her trailer with her two young children, ages 6 and 8, when two masked intruders, Kenneth Ray Parr and Michael Wayne Jimenez, forced their way in. The attackers, armed with handguns, ransacked the home; Parr raped Linda and shot her twice in the head while the children lay beside her and witnessed the events. The intruders fled with Linda’s car keys and other belongings.

The children called their grandmother after the attackers left. Stolen items were later recovered from the apartment of Monica Silva, who testified that Parr had confessed the burglary and murder to her. Parr was arrested and charged; he was convicted and sentenced to death.

Jimenez, who was a juvenile at the time, received a life sentence.