Murderer released, due to Soros DA’s failure to meet deadline

“In Travis County, the land of bonded-out murder suspects,” “a suspect managed to avoid murder charges through sheer sloth and incompetence from the Travis County DA’s office,” notes Lawrence Person. The DA’s office caused the dangerous murderer to be released by negligently failing to meet a routine legal deadline.

The Travis County DA, José Garza, was elected with massive support from left-wing billionaire George Soros, who supports soft-on-crime policies. Soros contributed $652,000 to the Texas Justice & Public Safety PAC. That PAC then spent most of that money supporting Garza’s campaign against incumbent Margaret Moore. Moore, a moderate Democrat, was defeated by the left-wing José Garza in the Democratic primary.

Austin Justice reports:

AUSTIN MAN beat a woman to death, left her body under a tarp in his yard for two days, then buried her in a backyard burn pit — and never faced a single day in court for the murder, because Travis County prosecutors missed the deadline to indict him.

Ad now he’ll be released from prison in March, according to Texas prison records.

The victim was Natalie Renee Pearce, a 36-year-old caregiver who worked with adults with developmental disabilities and helped run a horse therapy program.

Peter Perius picked her up near Rundberg Lane and brought her home to get high on meth. He texted his nephew afterward that he didn’t want to spend the second half of his life in prison.

He apparently is getting his wish and will be a free man soon.

Perius was charged with murder, bond set at $500,000. Then the case sat. In February 2024, a judge dismissed the murder charge because prosecutors failed to meet deadlines.

What was left was tampering with a corpse. He pleaded guilty in December 2024, but two enhancements were abandoned, and he got 10 years with 766 days already credited.

Prosecutors could have put him away before he killed Natalie. Two months before he picked her up, prosecutors had declined to file a felony meth possession case against him. He had 18 Travis County cases already — including a child/elderly/disabled injury charge, three family violence assaults in a single year, an indecent exposure, a revoked probation, a string of DWIs.

Now Natalie Pearce is dead and her killer is set to be a free man soon because Austin’s prosecutors failed to do their job.

As Lawrence Person notes, “news stories corroborate all the relevant details. ‘A murder charge that Perius previously faced was dismissed due to the Travis County District Attorney’s Office failing to meet the indictment deadline.’ Somehow this case of massive incompetence got relegated to half a sentence at the end of paragraph five. Under Soros-backed DA Jose Garza, Travis County’s DA office has put a revolving door on the jailhouse to allow repeat offenders back out on the streets to continue victimizing law-abiding citizens. Usually murder cases are treated with a fair degree of seriousness in a competent DA’s office (at least outside of no-witness drug gang shootings). They’re high profile cases that receive special attention, but evidently not in Travis County. One wonders whether Garza’s staff let Perius walk out of sheer incompetence, or an ideological belief that no one should spend time in jail for committing a crime against anyone, for anything, ever.”

In Arlington County, Virginia, a Soros prosecutor dropped multiple felony charges against a man who admitted to shooting someone, even though he had a prior arrest record. A year later, he was charged with murder in the District of Columbia after he shot and killed a woman. As the Daily Caller reported:

A man arrested for a shooting in Northern Virginia in 2025 was charged with second-degree murder a year after multiple felony charges against him were dropped by Arlington County’s chief prosecutor, Parisa Dehghani-Tafti.

Malachi Rawlings was charged with six felonies, including “aggravated malicious wounding” and “use of a machine gun for an aggressive purpose,” for the Jan. 1, 2025, incident in a Ballston apartment building where police found him in possession of an illegally modified pistol. But even though he admitted to that Ballston shooting, multiple felony charges were dropped. After receiving “deferred adjudication” for those charges, he was arrested by police in Washington, D.C., and charged with second-degree murder….

The six felonies Rawlings was charged with in state court over the January 2025 shooting could have led to a minimum sentence of 25 years in prison, with the maximum sentence being life without parole plus up to 49 years, ARLNow.com reported in March 2025. But multiple felony charges were dropped, even though Rawlings had been “previously charged with firearm offenses in D.C. in 2022 and early 2024, according to Metropolitan Police Department press releases,” meaning he was an obvious danger to public safety….

Arlington County Commonwealth’s Attorney Parisa Dehghani-Tafti — whose office dropped most charges against Rawlings — received nearly $1 million in donations from political action committees funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros, according to campaign finance records.

The Soros-backed prosecutor in neighboring Fairfax County, Virginia adopted soft-on-crime policies that led to a huge increase in shoplifting.

That prosecutor, Steve Descano, lets a fifth of all killers in Fairfax County escape a conviction by agreeing to their plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, which would almost certainly be rejected by a jury. Less than 1 percent of all killers are actually legally insane enough to qualify for an insanity plea, but Descano colludes with defense lawyers to accept what appear to be bogus insanity pleas.

A convicted criminal with a long history of arrests recently stabbed a woman to death in Fairfax County, due to the soft-on-crime policies of the local prosecutor, Steve Descano, who often drops charges against violent criminals, and agrees to short sentences that lead to violent criminals being swiftly released.

Descano let an illegal alien walk free even after he had confessed to participating in a prior murder. That enabled him to kill another person, notes the Washington Examiner: “Democrats are allowing people to be murdered by illegal immigrants so they can brag that they are not cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement. This is the reality…in Fairfax County, Virginia.”

Descano has received more than $600,000 in campaign support from a PAC tied to leftist financier George Soros since 2019.