DALLAS — For Vera Mitchell, this birthday was especially sweet.

She turned 94 — and received news she thought she might not live to hear: the people who stole her property had finally been caught.

“All praises go to our God,” Mitchell said.

WFAA chronicled Mitchell's fight to get her land back in 2023 , after a deed filed with the Dallas County Clerk falsely claimed she had sold the vacant lot.

“When I saw the signature, I knew it wasn’t mine,” she said during a 2023 interview.

Dallas police discovered someone had impersonated Mitchell using a fake driver’s license to steal the property.

Mitchell's daughter, Dalphine Parrish, filed a motion in civil court seeking to have the fraudulent deed voided, and the property transferred back into her mother’s name.

In September 2023, the bu

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