Weldon Alexander biography: 13 things about Texarkana, Texas man

Weldon Eugene “Hip” Alexander was an American man from Texarkana, Bowie County, Texas, United States. He was 13 years older than his first wife Vera Jeanette Lynch Alexander.

Weldon was retired from the Cooper Tire and Rubber Company. He and Vera have two children together namely Karen Ann Alexander and Gordon Dale Alexander.

In 1981, Karen and Gordon were murdered. No suspects were identified and the case went cold.

In 2022, the case was reopened. On October 11, 2023, Miller County prosecuting attorney Connie Mitchell wrote to retired Texarkana Police Department captain Calvin Seward and Dr. Todd Steffy, “After reviewing your comprehensive report and meeting with you personally to discuss the case, your findings and theories, it is my opinion that Weldon Alexander, father to Karen Alexander and Gordon Alexander, is the sole, viable suspect in their murder.

Mitchell added that Weldon “committed or attempted to commit rape against his daughter Karen and in the course of and in furtherance of said rape, he caused the death of his daughter, Karen”. According to Mitchell, Weldon “caused the death” of Gordon “in the course of and in furtherance of the rape of Karen” or “in the immediate flight therefrom”.

Born in Bloomburg, Cass County, Texas, Weldon is the first among the five children of Webber M. Alexander and Avis D. Arledge Alexander. Here are 13 more things about Weldon:

1. On September 28, 1966, Vera gave birth to their daughter Karen Ann Alexander.
2. On December 10, 1967, Vera gave birth to their son Gordon Dale Alexander.
3. On July 5, 1972, his father died at age 63.
4. On March 28, 1979, his sister Mary Jane Alexander died in Texarkana at age 31.
5. On April 7, 1981, he called the authorities to report that he arrived home shortly after 7:00 a.m. after working a graveyard shift at the Cooper Tire and Rubber Company and found Karen and Gordon brutally stabbed in their residence in Texarkana. At the time, Vera was in the hospital. Gordon, who was in a wheelchair due to a hip injury from bicycle accident, was pronounced dead at the scene while Karen was rushed to the hospital.
6. On April 11, 1981, his daughter Karen died in the hospital.
7. On March 20, 1984, his first wife Vera took her own life in Texarkana at age 37.
8. In 1991, he married Nancy Huggins Alexander.
9. On January 10, 1993, his brother James Luston Alexander died in Fullerton, California, USA at age 52.
10. On February 24, 2003, his mother died at age 88.
11. On January 5, 2013, his brother Ernest Dean Alexander died at age 76.
12. On October 24, 2013, his sister Evelyn Alexander Thompson died in Texarkana at age 75.
13. On November 6, 2014, he died in a hospital in Texarkana at age 80.