Calli Bailey

Texas born. Texas prosecutor. Seeker of truth, justice, and all local and national crime news. Unconditional supporter of Dallas sports teams. Dogs are family.

[WFAA @wfaa]

Jeffery Wheat, 51, pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting four women in North Texas. He will spend the rest of his life in prison with eligibility of parole. https://t.co/06apXOUhES

[Calli Bailey @callidiane]

I don’t normally post about my job, weigh in on criminal justice topics, or share my deepest feelings on social media. But today was a true example of the criminal justice system at its best and I feel great pride and gratitude in being even a small part of that on behalf of CCDA

[Collin County DA @collincountyda]

District Attorney Greg Willis’s Office Secures Life Sentence for Sorority Rapist After Case Solved Using Forensic Genetic Genealogy

District Attorney Greg Willis’s office secured a life sentence for a home invasion serial rapist after the case was solved using forensic genetic genealogy. “This maximum sentence would not have been possible without the bravery of these four survivors, as well as the above and beyond cooperation and coordination of Plano, Coppell, Corinth, and Arlington police, and the Collin, Dallas, Denton, and Tarrant county district attorney offices. This was the first Collin County offender identified using the same forensic DNA technology that solved the Golden State Killer case. We’re grateful for Plano Police Department’s decade long dedication to cracking this case, and ultimately three other cases,” stated Willis after sentencing.

On April 2, 2011, @PlanoPoliceDept responded to a home invasion sexual assault that occurred sometime after 2 o’clock in the morning. The victim was awakened by an unknown male in her bed. She fought back during the sexual assault and in the course of doing so, her attacker’s blood was transferred to a pillow case on the bed. The pillow case was collected as evidence, as was a routine sexual assault nurse examination, both of which were forensically analyzed to develop a clear suspect DNA profile.

In September and October of 2011, @CoppellPolice (Dallas County) and @Corinth_Police Department (Denton County) responded to similar home invasion sexual assaults where the victims also underwent SANE exams. The unknown male profile in both of those cases was a forensic match to the suspect profile in the Plano case. Plano, Coppell, and Corinth police departments worked tirelessly for years collecting DNA from persons of interest and following up on any and all viable tips associated with these cases. The suspect was even the subject of an FBI’s America’s Most Wanted episode.

In 2018, @ArlingtonPD (Tarrant County) sent sexual assault kits on unsolved cases for additional testing in hopes that advancements in DNA technology would result in new leads. This uncovered evidence from a 2003 home invasion sexual assault case that also matched to the same offender from all three 2011 cases.

In 2018, Detective Daniel Bryeans became the lead cold case investigator assigned to the case for Plano PD. Bryeans, assisted by Plano PD analyst Jane Clements, spent the next two years working with genetic genealogy laboratories and conducting hundreds of hours of genealogical research to narrow in on a person of interest.

Ultimately, that research, along with forensic testing, lead to the arrest of Jeffery Wheat, 52, of Lexington, Mississippi, for the first degree Burglary of a Habitation with Intent to Commit Sex Assault. Wheat was working as a long-haul truck driver in Mississippi at the time of his arrest. However, Wheat had been living in the DFW area during the time periods of all four of the offenses. Plano’s investigation revealed that each of the 2011 victims was a member of the same sorority and that the sorority had used a credit card processing company that employed Wheat and would have given him access to personal identifying information. It was due to this connection of the three 2011 victims that Wheat was dubbed the “Sorority Rapist” by the police agencies and the media in the early stages of investigation.

On Tuesday, February 27th, three of the survivors appeared in court for the sentencing hearing and gave their victim impact statements, confronted their attacker, and described the trauma they endured.

Judge Angela Tucker imposed the sentence secured by prosecutors – Life in prison.

Assistant Criminal District Attorneys Calli Bailey and Dewey Mitchell prosecuted the case, aided by District Attorney Investigator Stephanie Strickland.

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#PursuingJustice #ProtectingOurCommunity #CollinCounty #CollinCountyDA

[Calli Bailey @callidiane]

Proud big sister moment!! @kinseybaileyy

[Big South Conference @BigSouthSports]

She recorded 38 assists (9.5 per set), 13 digs (3.25 per set), 5 service aces and 5 kills!

@BlueHoseVolley's Kinsey Bailey is the #BigSouthVB Player of the Week!

[Calli Bailey @callidiane]

#NationalPoliceWeek #NeverForget 💙🙏 1078

[Collin County DA @collincountyda]

On this #PeaceOfficersMemorialDay, we pay tribute to @RichardsonTX_PD Officer David Sherrard, murdered on 2/7/18. Sherrard died like he lived, in the service & protection of others.

#DavidSherrard #BackTheBlue #RichardsonPD #WeWillNeverForget #AmericanHero #ThinBlueLine

[Calli Bailey @callidiane]

The #BlueAngels flew right over our neighborhood hospital (Centennial Frisco) this morning 🤗✈️🙏 #thankyouhealthcareworkers #nationalnursesweek #stayhomesavelives #americastrong

[FOX 4 NEWS @FOX4]

The Navy’s Blue Angels will fly over the Dallas-Fort Worth area Wednesday morning to pay tribute to the workers on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. https://t.co/Bwo56e0tnz

[Calli Bailey @callidiane]

'The Great Realisation' poem offers optimism about the future https://t.co/Z37ynUG8XF via @MailOnline

[Collin County DA @collincountyda]

“It was life changing” said a graduate about our #BurdentoBlessing #secondchance program.

See how it gives young nonviolent offenders both the #opportunity and #skills for a better future!

#justice #responsibility #collincountyda

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[Christina H Koch @Astro_Christina]

Rare lunch time run with Sadie! Thriving in an unexpected situation is all about focusing more on the unique things you get to do that you normally can’t and less on what you might miss. We got this. #Earthstrong

[National Children's Advocacy Center @NCAC_HSV]

This is a very real concern right now. We appreciate USA TODAY for reaching out to us and helping sound the alarm.

Please do your part to #stopthespread for all of us - especially the children living in unsafe situations.

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[Calli Bailey @callidiane]

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[Greg Willis @gregwillisda]

Why Everything Is Closing For Coronavirus: It’s Called ‘Flattening The Curve’ #COVID19 https://t.co/oDqBjnFhXx

[Nelson Bunn @nelsonbunn]

DNA technology and investigative genetic genealogy are valuable tools to solve cold cases, holding true offenders accountable and potentially exonerating innocent individuals. https://t.co/yODGyHBPSW @ABC10 @ELDoradoDAOFC

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

This has been flying around Twitter the last 24 hours and I cannot say enough how foolish and wrong it is. It is the stupidest kind of math. The virus doesn’t adapt. We do. New cases have fallen by a factor of 30 in China in the last month. You read that right. Not risen. FALLEN.

[Dallas Morning News @dallasnews]

You’ll soon be getting Dallas calls from the 945 area code https://t.co/TcD3pS60LM

[Greg Willis @gregwillisda]

Thankful for the jury’s verdict and grateful for our @collincountyda team @BillWirskye Dewey Mitchell @callidiane Doug Millican @Tex_Crim_App Sarah Preston @kailey_gillman Laurie Gibbs https://t.co/B5HV2jro2Q

[Nelson Bunn @nelsonbunn]

Thanks to @thehill for publishing my latest piece on prosecutors serving as ministers of justice, not as actors that simply want to lock people up and throw away the key. https://t.co/E7JeO3yUcg @ndaajustice

[McKinney Police @McKinneyPolice]

Know these suspects? They are wanted in the robbery of the Kwik Shop convenience store in the 200 block of E. University.

If you have any information, please reach out to Det. Craig Owens at 972-547-2819 or [email protected].

[Alex Berenson @AlexBerenson]

Wow. A peer-reviewed paper out today shows the percent of homicide victims with THC in their blood almost doubled between 2004 and 2016, to 42% (with even higher rates among teens and black victims). THC is now more common than alcohol in victims.
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[Texas DPS @TxDPS]

DPS Releases Mass Attacks, Domestic Terrorism Reports https://t.co/gD0IbbyFTR