MARBLE FALLS (KXAN) – For nearly six decades, Darlene Oostermeyer had waited for movement in the stalled case of her 13-year-old cousin’s tragic death. In 1965, Darlene was a few years older than Daynon Lewis, a shy, blonde eighth grader from Marble Falls.
“You have helped clear some confusion from 60 years,” Darlene recently told KXAN. “The fog is thinner now.”
Daynon's lifeless body was found in a shed behind her home. She was hanging from a rafter by a jump rope tied around her neck, according to her death certificate and newspaper archives.
A local, elected justice of the peace, C.B. Wall – who had no medical background and did not order an autopsy – ruled Daynon’s death an accident and quickly closed the case.
In the description on the death certificate, Wall wrote: “I hereby certify that I held an Inquest over the Remains of Laniece Daynon Lewis and found that death was due to Strangulation, Accidental.”
“There was just no way that it was an accident,” Daynon’s classmate, Ronnie Lewis, told KXAN. “And it just led me and many others to always question it.”
Following KXAN’s investigation surrounding discrepancies in the case and others from the same timeframe, a new Burnet County justice of the peace reviewed the evidence our team uncovered and submitted a request for the Texas Department of State Health Services to amend Daynon’s death certificate.
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