A Texas True Crime story: Worthing High School basketball star Trellis Sykes was murdered in 1994.
Student athlete Trellis Sykes took a shortcut in 1994 that had a fatal ending. On her way to Worthing HS, she was hit on the head, raped and murdered in a field of tall weeds. Her killer was never caught.It's been more than 28 years since Trellis Sykes, a 16-year-old high school basketball star, was murdered while walking to Worthing High School.
" tenacious. The girl could run. She could jump. She could shoot," Evans says. "And I tell you, you could not intimidate her.""You can see that she had an idea where she was going, until evilness approached her," says Detective Darcus Shorten, with Houston Police. We met Shorten along the trampled path of grass in that overgrown lot where Trellis' lifeless body was found decades ago. "This is where the disaster occurs. This is where a blitz occurs.
"School stopped. It really did," says Evans. "The students were so torn up about it from ninth grade all the way through the twelfth grade. They were sick about it. It was unbelievable this happened to one of them. Reality set in that this could well enough happen to them just like it happened to Trellis."
It would take more than 20 years to test the rape kits from all the sexual assault victims because of a backlog in testing in Harris County. HPD cold case detectives say they're resubmitting evidence in Trellis' case. These detectives say they'll work to make sure Trellis is never forgotten.
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