Dallas County

Wife of Runner Killed on White Rock Trail Feels Lost Without ‘The Love of My Life'

It was a brutal and random act. Police say a mentally ill man who was once a Texas A&M football star ambushed GE engineer Dave Stevens with a machete while he was running on the White Rock Creek Trail Oct. 12. It took authorities more than a day to identify Stevens through fingerprints.

Patti Stevens, his widow, talked with Dallas Morning News reporter Naomi Martin about the man she married, their hopes — and her dread on the day he disappeared. The defendant is being held in the Dallas County Jail on a murder charge.

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