Dallas Man Admits To Killing HIV-Positive Mistress

Dallas, TX — A Dallas man admitted to killing his mistress after she told him she was HIV positive.

Larry Dunn told police he killed Cicely Lee Bolden, who told him she was HIV positive in September 2012, to get revenge.

“I wanted to make her pay,” Dunn said in a recorded interview with police. “Killing her wasn’t on the menu. That’s just how it ended up.”

Dunn told police that he and Bolden had unprotected sex the night of the murder, a week after she told him that she was HIV positive. According to the Dallas Morning News, Dunn went to the kitchen and got a steak knife. He got back in bed and stabbed Bolden in the throat, killing her.

“In my mind, I’m already dead,” Dunn said. “She killed me, so I killed her.”

So far, Larry Dunn has not tested positive for HIV. His attorney, George Ashford, said he is still undergoing tests. If Dunn is convicted, he faces up to life in prison unless his attorneys can convince the jury that the 37-year-old acted with “sudden passion.” In that case, Dunn would only face two to 20 years in prison.

The body of 28-year-old Cicely Lee Bolden, who was naked from the waist down at the time of her death, was found by her 7-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter. Neighbor Latoya Arnett testified that the children ran out of the apartment crying and screaming “my mama, my mama.” They are now living separately with relatives.

Arnett said she heard the commotion and went to check on Bolden. She found her covered in blood and called police. In court, she testified that she saw Dunn enter the apartment earlier that day.

Police questioned Dunn after Bolden’s family and friends said she had started dating a man named Larry, and that the two had gotten into a heated argument after she confessed that she had tested positive for HIV. Police found Dunn’s number in Bolden’s phone, and he agreed to speak with detectives, as well as provide his fingerprints and a DNA sample.

Larry Dunn denied killing Cicely Lee Bolden at first, but admitted to having sex with her the day of the murder. He also denied knowing that Bolden was HIV positive when Detective Brian Tabor told him her status. Tabor said Dunn was “pretty convincing,” but that it seemed unlikely anyone else would have killed Bolden.

Dunn confessed to killing to Bolden in a second interview, saying, “I was enraged, man… She knew she had HIV.” Dunn said Bolden didn’t fight back, and that she “didn’t see [the knife] until it was in her throat.” Dunn burned his clothes after killing Bolden, and dumped the knife in a trash can at an Irving Waffle House.

Larry Dunn said he had unprotected sex with Cicely Lee Bolden because he figured it wouldn’t matter. He believed he had already contracted the disease, and was worried that he had infected his wife.