In a surprising September 2012 confession, Larry Dunn told Dallas Police that he killed girlfriend Cicely Bolden, when she admitted to having HIV after they had sex. Dunn was cheating on his wife with Cicely when she revealed the news to him.
The two met through a chat line. Dunn said he had only been dating Cicely briefly, when she confessed to having HIV. Cicely told Dunn not to worry about it because it was “not that bad.”
The admission didn’t go as planned for Cicely though.
During trial, Dunn testified and indicated that before he and Cicely met in person they talked on the phone for about a week. The second time they met in person, they had sex and had sex other times after that. One day, while they were talking on the phone, Cicely mentioned a TV show she was watching in which a girl told a guy she was having a relationship with that she was HIV positive and that how it happened was funny. He told her it was not funny. He testified the conversation threw up a red flag for him. A couple days later, Dunn asked Cicely over the phone if she had HIV. Cicely initially denied it, but later in the conversation admitted it was true.
At that point, Dunn felt like he had HIV and his wife probably had it. He kind of felt suicidal and was distraught. He tried to not have any contact with Cicely. The day after Cicely confirmed she was HIV positive, Dunn went out of town for the Labor Day weekend with his wife. Cicely tried to contact him to find out why he was not talking to her.
About a week after learning Cicely was HIV positive, Dunn went to her apartment. She knew he was coming. He wanted her to explain to him in person why she did it. She let him in and went to her bedroom. Dunn followed her and asked, “What’s up?” Cicely was silent, but started to perform oral sex on appellant.
Afterward, Dunn told her she still had not told him why. Then Cicely “caught a real attitude like it just annoyed her to death” he was still asking her about it. She told Dunn she basically did him a favor, because the man who gave it to her did not tell her and she found out from the doctor. Dunn described how Cicely’s demeanor changed to “attitude, just pure attitude.” Dunn had never seen her that way before. As he told the detective in their interview, Dunn became enraged the more Cicely talked about it. She “seemed so nonchalant” and did not care if he got HIV or not.
He explained that Cicely told him “you are not the first and you won’t be the last.” He took this to mean that she was not going to stop “basically targeting [men] to give HIV to.” Cicely never expressed any remorse to him other than in a text message.
Dunn visited Cicely’s home a week later for unprotected sex one last time. He then took a steak knife from the kitchen and stabbed Cicely in the neck as she laid in bed.
“She didn’t see it until it was in her throat,” Dunn told police. “She wasn’t very strong.”
What makes matters worse Cicely’s two young children would be the ones to find her on her bedroom floor. Coming home from school, they found their mother naked from the waist down with two gashes in her neck.
Dunn initially denied killing Cicely when he was initially confronted by police, the report said. Brian Tabor, a Dallas detective, told the court that Dunn was convincing, but he continued pressing the suspect because of his likely connection. He admitted to the crime in a second interview.
“I wanted to make her pay,” Dunn said in a recorded interview. “Killing her wasn’t on the menu. That’s just how it ended up.”
Cooperating with authorities, Dunn later admitted to burning his clothes and discarding the knife allegedly used in the murder in a waffle house garbage.
He told authorities in a video interview, “She killed me, so I killed her.”
Dunn said he regretted his actions not because of anything that had to do with Cicely or her family, but because of how it affected his son, wife, and mother.
The father of Cicely’s son, Jeff Busby, said she had contracted HIV within the last couple of years. He said he has both her son and her daughter.
On November 5, 2013, Dunn was sentenced to 40 years in prison without a possibility of parole.
To date, Dunn has not tested positive for HIV.
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