![]() ![]() The murder investigation was re-opened but sat gathering dust for a long time. In 1996 forensic technology allowed testing of a small sample of DNA that was taken from Toni's body and it proved that Laughlin had not been the person who sexually assulted the nurse and killed her. A jury eventually voted 11-1 for acquittal. A bartender assistant named Danny Laughlin was indicted and tried in Archer County, Texas for Toni's murder. ![]() In mid-February an electrician was checking a transformer and discovered Toni Gibbs' body lying in a field less than two miles from her home. Two days later Toni's abandoned car was discovered but Toni was still missing. Police orginized search parties in a parking lot at Midwestern University. After she did not report for work and was not at her apartment, the community was afraid that something horrible had happened to her. ![]() Toni Gibbs was a young nurse who worked the night shift at a local hospital in Wichita Falls, Texas. ![]()
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