We learned several months ago that Michael Giles, a retired military serviceman, had been found by police in his backyard under a concrete slab.
 
In a story in the Dallas Morning News Saturday, a new twist is introduced: a young woman confesses to the crime. However, her story doesn't convince detectives. In fact, the "confession" leads detectives to re-arrest the original suspect, Kwaneta Harris, for paying Ms Flores to "take the rap."
 
The story is captured below:
 

From the Dallas Morning News, Metro section:

Garland police say suspect in killing persuaded woman to confess

12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, April 26, 2008
By STEVE THOMPSON / The Dallas Morning News
stevethompson@dallasnews.com
 
Erika Flores told police she committed the murder. She had killed the Garland man months before investigators dug his body up from under a concrete slab in his backyard last year, she said.
 
An innocent suspect had been charged, when, in truth, she was the one responsible, the 19-year-old told detectives Thursday.
 
But Garland police say Ms. Flores' story didn't add up. Early Friday, detectives arrested the person they believe put her up to making a phony confession: the original suspect, Kwaneta Harris.
 
Ms. Harris, 35, had been out on bail facing a capital murder charge in connection with the death of Michael Giles. She's now being held on a new charge of tampering with a witness – this time, without the possibility of bail.
 
Her alleged stooge, Ms. Flores, had broken down during questioning, according to a police affidavit. She finally told detectives that Ms. Harris had paid her and given her "a script of what to tell police and prosecutors, including such details as to cry when you talk about pulling the trigger," the affidavit says.
 
It was unclear Friday whether Ms. Flores will face charges. Garland police did not return calls for comment.
 
This latest accusation against Ms. Harris is one more twist in a bizarre case surrounding the killing of Mr. Giles, a 46-year-old military retiree.
 
Garland police and the FBI descended on his middle-class neighborhood near Firewheel Town Center and dug up his remains on Oct. 19 – more than a year after neighbors noticed his absence.
 
That same day, authorities arrested Ms. Harris in Detroit. The title for Mr. Giles' car had been transferred into her name, his retirement benefits were being directed to an account with her name on it, and she was renting out his home through a real estate broker, police say.
 
It was the tenant's suspicions that finally led to the discovery of his body. The man told authorities he had been instructed when he rented the house not to dig in the backyard because there were wires buried there.
 
One day, after living there a couple of months, he found a woman in the backyard with a contractor. The woman, who authorities believe was Ms. Harris, told him she was taking care of the property for her godfather. She had flown into town, she said, to have a small slab of concrete poured in the backyard. She wanted to replace some small pavers that were sinking into the ground, she said.
 
The tenant went inside for a moment, and the woman disappeared. The 3-by-15-foot slab that was later poured, the tenant told authorities, seemed unnecessary and out of place.
 
As detectives began looking into Mr. Giles' disappearance, they learned he last spoke with his family in July 2006. But then his sister began getting text messages from his phone. He was fine and needed to get away for a while, one of the messages said.
 
That same month, detectives discovered, some men had moved all the furniture out of the house. Using a license plate number jotted down by an observant neighbor, they tracked the furniture to a Garland man named Francisco Vicuna.
 
Mr. Vicuna said he had been contacted by a woman who said she was moving and offered to sell the furniture for cheap. He and some of his family members purchased two truckloads, he said.
 
Mr. Vicuna's son, Francisco Vicuna Jr., told authorities they noticed a red stain on one tan couch, but that the woman said it was red paint.
 
She asked them to dig a hole in the backyard, he said.
 
They did.