CHANNELVIEW, Texas (KTRK) — A person has been charged in reference to the 2010 beating demise of a Channelview man, the Harris County Sheriff’s Workplace introduced on Tuesday.
The sheriff’s workplace stated Jerry Fain, who’s already serving a life sentence for strangling his girlfriend in 2014, was charged in James Terry’s homicide on Monday.
Investigators say Terry was bludgeoned to demise inside his Monmouth Avenue trailer on Oct. 5, 2010.
His daughter, Leona Terry, stated her dad had beforehand had a disagreement with Fain, who she stated she suspected from day one.
“This dude’s a psychopath,” Terry stated.
On the time, Fain was already a convicted intercourse offender who’d been jailed for assaulting a 14-year-old woman.
“My dad did not actually know him, he simply knew of him,” Terry advised Eyewitness Information.
Fain is at present eligible for parole in 2044 for his girlfriend’s homicide, however Terry stated she’s hopeful he’ll have a distinct destiny if convicted of her father’s homicide.
“He’s the place he must be, and hopefully, you understand, with this being added, we will probably perhaps go for a demise penalty case. You by no means know,” she stated.
The sheriff’s workplace stated it had been eyeing Fain as a suspect since not less than 2021 when it bought a brand new lead. That very same yr, Leona Terry appeared on the podcast, “The Homicide In My Household.”
“I bought a name from the detective that we had gotten the confession, and, certain sufficient, it was Jerry (expletive) Fain,” she stated.
No matter detectives had been working with then clearly wasn’t sufficient to cost Fain till now. The sheriff’s workplace stated it started reviewing the case this yr.
“I assume, you understand, you bought to dot your i’s and cross your t’s and, you understand, I am not on that aspect of the desk so I do not know what they was doing, however I am grateful it is taking place now,” Terry stated.
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