KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Two men looking for scrap metal found a woman's body in Kansas City, Kansas on Christmas Day in 1998. Christina King, 26, was found behind an abandoned building at N. 27th Street and Sewell Avenue, in KCK's Quindaro neighborhood. Despite investigators finding DNA evidence at the scene, her case went cold for more than two decades until an arrest was made in 2023. King's daughter, April Parks, was just 10 years old when her mother was murdered. She spoke to FOX4 three years ago during a balloon release at the site where her mother's body was found. Body found in wheel well of United Airlines flight from Chicago to Maui "Who did it? Why? How could they do that to such a young person? She was only 26," Parks said. "Her autopsy [showed] there were so many injuries and so many abrasions and bruises." Court documents confirm that, saying King's face was "bloody and swollen." An autopsy claimed she died from "blunt force trauma to the head." Detectives charged Gary Dion Davis, 53, with King's murder, along with a second woman, Pearl Davis, who was also known as Sameemah Musawwir; she was found stabbed to death in a home on Lafayette Avenue in 1996. Mugshot of Gary Dion Davis, courtesy of Wyandotte County Detention Center The KCK Police Department and the Wyandotte County District Attorney's Office announced the arrest of Gary Davis during a news conference in September 2023. However, questions remain as to why it took so long to arrest him. Police detectives had previously tested evidence collected at King's murder scene in 1999 and 2002. Court documents said police detectives got a notification in November 2003, nearly five years after the murder, that a DNA profile was obtained from inside a condom found near King's body. It matched the known DNA of Gary Davis. Despite this find, court documents reveal detectives did not interview Gary Davis until May 2005, a year-and-a-half later. He was never arrested or charged with a crime until 18 years later when that same evidence was retested with the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. The main reason an arrest finally happened in 2023 is because of the KCK Police Department's Cold Case Unit, which started in 2022. Detectives sent off evidence collected at Pearl Davis's murder scene to the KBI to have it retested. They got a notification in January 2023 that a CODIS hit matched Gary Dion Davis. For those unfamiliar, CODIS is national database known as the Combined DNA Index System. A detective in the cold case unit testified at a preliminary hearing that that the report linked Davis to an additional case she was working on at the time: Christina King. According to that detective, once a CODIS hit has been made, you must submit a known sample for confirmation on the hit. They did so by using DNA collected during that 2005 police interview with Gary Davis. Despite that critical find, other items retested at King's murder site didn't produce any evidence tying Davis to the scene, according to court records. The only item containing a DNA match was the inside of a used condom. Fingernail scrapings taken from King's 1998 rape kit were tested against known samples for Gary Davis, but court records said, "no male haplotype was obtained from [the] examination." Additionally, cold case detectives tested a brandy bottle found at King's murder scene to KBI for fingerprinting but didn't get a hit. As for Pearl Davis's case, cold case detectives sent in blood samples and a used condom to KBI for retesting in 2022. Court records said DNA from both were consistent with the "same unknown male" and entered into a data base. The KBI sent a letter back to cold case detectives two weeks later saying a hit was obtained from the data base on a man named Gary Davis; the DNA profile for the condom and blood trail matched his profile. While speaking to reporters at the September 2023 news conference, KCK Police Chief Karl Oakman thought Gary Davis could be involved in other cases. "In my experience, based on him killing two women, most likely he's killed more." Download the FOX4 News app on iPhone and Android FOX4 contacted the department last week to see about any updates on that front. We were told, "We are still working this. Nothing that we are comfortable releasing at this point." For now, Gary Davis remains in jail, charged with two counts of second-degree murder. His trial is scheduled for February 24, 2025 at 9 a.m. He's pleaded not guilty to both murder charges.