Posted On July 18, 2022.

The last time Priscilla Kevil saw her brother was on July 8, 1977, when Robert Matt Kevil Jr. and the family had dinner in their parents’ home in White Settlement. A week later, the body of the 30-year-old man was found in a ditch just off Interstate 35W in far north Tarrant County, just south of the Denton County line. The Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office ruled that the used-car salesman had been stabbed 24 times on his chest, back, neck and arms. Robert Matt Kevil Jr. of White Settlement was stabbed to death and his body was found on July 15, 1977, in north Tarrant County. 

No one has been charged in the case in 45 years. Courtesy: Matt Budjenska On Friday, it will be 45 years since Robert “Robby” Kevil was killed in Tarrant County, and no one has ever been charged in what his family believes is one of the most disreputable murder investigations of a cold case in Texas.

Within months after his brutal slaying, several of Kevil’s family members believe detectives with the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office stopped the investigation, leaving it unsolved for four decades. “We all understood that Robby’s case had been swept under the rug,” his sister said in a recent interview with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In Tarrant County, since 1960, there have been more than 100 cold cases involving murders in the unincorporated parts of the county, Fort Worth, Arlington and other cities in the area. [...]

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