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DALLAS - Dallas police have arrested an acquaintance in the stabbing death of a 20-year-old Art Institute student whose body was discovered in her Lake Highlands apartment in September.
Daniel Willyam, 26, was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon in the death of Samantha Michelle Nance, who was found slain in her bedroom on Sept. 11.
Shortly after the discovery of her body, Dallas detectives searched the apartment that Willyam shares with Nance's boyfriend, Nathan Shuck, 20. Willyam and Shuck also attended the Art Institute.
During the search, authorities confiscated numerous items, including some that appeared to have dried blood on them. The items were to undergo DNA analysis.
Nance graduated from Italy High School in 2007 and was studying media arts and animation. Shuck graduated from Coppell High School in 2007, according to his MySpace page.
According to police records, Shuck appeared to have fresh scratches on his body at that time and, when asked whether he owned knives, he said he had more than a dozen in a locked box in the bedroom of the apartment.
Initially, Shuck gave written consent for a search of the apartment, but changed his mind during the search, so police obtained a search warrant.
Police have said from the beginning that they think Nance probably knew her killer. There was no sign of forced entry at her apartment in the 9000 block of Markville Drive, near Greenville Avenue and Forest Lane.
DMN writer Scott Goldstein contributed to this report.
