The Brief Gloria Ann Covington’s body was found by children playing at an Amarillo park on Aug. 5, 1997. DNA that was found during her autopsy was used to identify a suspect in the case – Jimmy Dale McClinton. The murder of a woman whose partially naked body was found by children playing at an Amarillo park nearly 30 years ago has been solved. Jimmy Dale McClinton is seen in this 1994 mugshot. Investigators worked to get the case against McClinton presented to a grand jury, but McClinton died before that happened.