DNA leads to arrest in '86 Texas slaying/Ohio
New DNA evidence led to an arrest of an Ohio man whose testimony in a 1986 Texas murder case helped convict another man in the crime, authorities said. Gerald Pabst,55,was once a suspect in the sexual assault and shooting death of Galua Crosby in Garland, Texas authorities said. But prosecutors dropped a murder charge against Pabst, who passed a polygraph test and tesitfied against Clay Chabot, who was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Pabst, who plead guilty to a misdemeanor theft for the items taken from Crosbys house. Pabst was arrested Monday at a bar in Geneva-on- the-lake, about 50 miles east of Cleveland, according to Attorney General Mark Dann. He was extradited to Dallas County where he'll face perjury charges, Dann said. Chabot had requested a post-conviction DNA test through the Innocence Project, which works to free people falsely imprisoned. The results came back in June and matched Pabst, who moved to Ohio in the mid-1990's, Dann said. Authorities did not describe the DNA evidence used to make the arrest. Dallas prosecutors are still determining if the DNA evidence exonerates Chabot.