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The Slaying of Susan Leigh Wolfe
Yesterday
The Slaying of Susan Leigh Wolfe
On Wednesday, January 9th, 1980, in the North Loop neighborhood of Austin, a man witnessed a young woman’s abduction. The following day, the body of that woman, 25-year-old University of Texas student Susan Leigh Wolfe, was found slain in an alley more than 4 miles away. Because the witness to the abduction was in the auto business, he was able to give Austin Police Detectives what might have been the best vehicle description the department had ever seen. But it didn’t matter; though the car had been seen by folks in the neighborhood before, as well as elsewhere in town, it was apparently never seen again. Susan Wolfe’s murder case went cold. When Austin Police pinned a few of their murders on Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Elwood Toole, murders they could not have committed, the witness in Susan’s case had made it virtually impossible to pin her murder on them, luckily. But unfortunately, her case faded into obscurity as the years and decades passed.If you have any information about the murder of Susan Leigh Wolfe, please contact the Austin Police Cold Case & Missing Persons Unit through the department’s homicide tipline at (512)477-3588 or by calling the capital area crime stoppers hotline at (512)472-8477To show your support for Fort Worth cold case victims and their families, please consider joining Thaw the Cold Cases on April 29th, 2023 in the city’s downtown. For more information, go to: https://fb.me/e/2ek81RvoOPlease consider donating to the go fund me for Leon Laureles. You can find it at: gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorialYou can support gone cold and listen ad-free at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcast Find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastThe Austin American-Statesman, Austin Monthly, Steven Alan Thomas court appeal documents, The Lucas Report, and Fox7 Austin were used as sources for this episode.#JusticeForSusanWolfe #Austin #AustinTX #TravisCountyTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #ColdCase #Unsolved #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Homicide #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast #ConfessionKiller #ATX
The Slaying of Susan Leigh Wolfe
Yesterday
The Slaying of Susan Leigh Wolfe
On Wednesday, January 9th, 1980, in the North Loop neighborhood of Austin, a man witnessed a young woman’s abduction. The following day, the body of that woman, 25-year-old University of Texas student Susan Leigh Wolfe, was found slain in an alley more than 4 miles away. Because the witness to the abduction was in the auto business, he was able to give Austin Police Detectives what might have been the best vehicle description the department had ever seen. But it didn’t matter; though the car had been seen by folks in the neighborhood before, as well as elsewhere in town, it was apparently never seen again. Susan Wolfe’s murder case went cold. When Austin Police pinned a few of their murders on Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Elwood Toole, murders they could not have committed, the witness in Susan’s case had made it virtually impossible to pin her murder on them, luckily. But unfortunately, her case faded into obscurity as the years and decades passed.If you have any information about the murder of Susan Leigh Wolfe, please contact the Austin Police Cold Case & Missing Persons Unit through the department’s homicide tipline at (512)477-3588 or by calling the capital area crime stoppers hotline at (512)472-8477To show your support for Fort Worth cold case victims and their families, please consider joining Thaw the Cold Cases on April 29th, 2023 in the city’s downtown. For more information, go to: https://fb.me/e/2ek81RvoOPlease consider donating to the go fund me for Leon Laureles. You can find it at: gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorialYou can support gone cold and listen ad-free at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcast Find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastThe Austin American-Statesman, Austin Monthly, Steven Alan Thomas court appeal documents, The Lucas Report, and Fox7 Austin were used as sources for this episode.#JusticeForSusanWolfe #Austin #AustinTX #TravisCountyTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #ColdCase #Unsolved #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Homicide #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast #ConfessionKiller #ATX
The Killing of Connie Jane Bibb
13-03-2023
The Killing of Connie Jane Bibb
On Thursday, November 27th, 1986, 28-year-old Connie Jane Bibb returned home after a holiday dinner at a friend’s house. It was her senior year at the University of Texas Austin as a special education major, and the religious woman looked forward to a life of teaching and missionary work. But senselessly, her life was cut short. All nine of Connie’s roommates were either attending the Longhorns V. Aggies game on campus, or out of town for the holiday, leaving her alone at the house Thanksgiving night. An intruder broke in, his intentions unknown, and after a violent struggle, Connie Bibb was murdered. It was a time when the cops were doing everything they could to suppress information about the Hyde Park Rapist, endangering North Austin’s female population, and the troubling rise in the city’s crime rate. They could not, of course hide Connie’s killing, but the local media’s attention span turned away quickly, and the case has been seldom reported on since.If you have any information about the murder of Connie Jane Bibb, please contact the Austin Police Cold Case & Missing Persons Unit through the department’s homicide tipline at (512)477-3588 or by calling the capital area crime stoppers hotline at (512)472-8477Please consider donating to the go fund me for Leon Laureles. You can find it at: gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorialYou can support gone cold and listen ad-free at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastThe Austin American-Statesman, Austin Monthly, and Fox7 Austin were used as sources for this episode. #JusticeForConnieBibb #Austin #AustinTX #TravisCountyTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #ColdCase #Unsolved #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Homicide #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast
The Murder of Father Patrick Ryan Part 3: Railroaded
06-03-2023
The Murder of Father Patrick Ryan Part 3: Railroaded
Nearly a year after the murder of Father Patrick Ryan of Saint William Catholic Church in Denver City, Texas, a confession call came into Albuquerque, New Mexico 911. The confessor had already been interviewed by Odessa Police Detectives and eliminated as a suspect, but frustrated detectives and politically motivated prosecutors were chomping at the bit to close the case. Though the only evidence that this man, 26-year-old James Harry Reyos, had beaten the priest to death at the Sand and Sage Motel in Odessa was his drunken confession, he was convicted of the crime. The problem is, Reyos did not kill Father Ryan. Part 3 of 3.If you have any information about the 1981 murder of Father Patrick Joseph Ryan, please call the Odessa Police Department at (432)335-496 or Odessa Crime Stoppers at (432)333-8477Please consider donating to the go fund me for Leon Laureles. You can find it at: gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorialYou can support gone cold and listen ad-free at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastThe Odessa American, the article “Who Killed Father Ryan?” by The Austin Chronicle’s Jordan Smith, Michael Hall’s Texas Monthly article “The Apache, the Irish Catholic Priest, and a 40-Year-Old Miscarriage of Justice,” the article “Man who denies murder of Limerick priest moves closer to seeing conviction quashed” by Ann Murphy in The Irish Examiner, NewsWest9.com, and Scott Lomax’s book “The Case of James Harry Reyos: A Wrongful Conviction Revealed” were used as sources for this episode.#WhoKilledFatherRyan #PardonJamesHarryReyos #Odessa #OdessaTX #EctorCountyTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #ColdCase #Unsolved #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Homicide #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast
The Murder of Father Patrick Ryan Part 2: Grave Danger
25-02-2023
The Murder of Father Patrick Ryan Part 2: Grave Danger
As Odessa Police Detectives investigated the December 21st, 1981 murder of Father Patrick Ryan, violence against other men of the cloth continued in the south and southwest United States, among other places. When a fairly similar attack or slaying of a priest occurred, the cops were on it, but they failed to make a connection every time. Was the violence related or were the holy men simply easy targets for opportunists? Odessa Police Detectives, at least, believed the latter.If you have any information about the 1981 murder of Father Patrick Joseph Ryan, please call the Odessa Police Department at (432)335-496 or Odessa Crime Stoppers at (432)333-8477Please consider donating to the go fund me for Leon Laureles. You can find it at: gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorialTo hear a detailed account of the Father Reynaldo Rivera murder case, and for many other unsolved cases, check out our friend Eric’s podcast True Consequences. trueconsequences.comIf you’re in the market for GIRL SCOUT COOKIES, we know a very special little girl who can help with that. To order, go to: https://app.abcsmartcookies.com/#/social-link-landing/8bfc1bd8-3dcc-4fa7-b7e1-5e05fa8f057cYou can support gone cold and listen ad-free at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcast The Odessa American, The New Mexican, The Olympian, The Tacoma News-Tribune, and Scott Lomax’s book “The Case of James Harry Reyos: A Wrongful Conviction Revealed” were used as sources for this episode.#WhoKilledFatherRyan #PardonJamesHarryReyos #Odessa #OdessaTX #EctorCountyTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #ColdCase #Unsolved #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Homicide #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast
The Murder of Father Patrick Ryan Part 1: Room 126
17-02-2023
The Murder of Father Patrick Ryan Part 1: Room 126
When Father Patrick Ryan disappeared from Denver City, Texas on December 21st, 1981, his congregants thought he’d gone to help someone or was called away to Plains, the other Yoakum County town where he was priest. By Christmas Day, however, after missing three Masses, they were worried and reported Father Ryan missing. Meanwhile, 85 miles to the southeast, police detectives in Odessa were investigating a mystery of their own – the murder of a John Doe whose body was found in a seedy, highway side motel.If you have any information about the 1981 murder of Father Patrick Joseph Ryan, please call the Odessa Police Department at (432)335-496 or Odessa Crime Stoppers at (432)333-8477Please consider donating to the go fund me for Leon Laureles. You can find it at: gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorialIf you’re in the market for GIRL SCOUT COOKIES, we know a very special little girl who can help with that. To order, go to: https://app.abcsmartcookies.com/#/social-link-landing/8bfc1bd8-3dcc-4fa7-b7e1-5e05fa8f057cYou can support gone cold and listen ad-free at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastThe Odessa American, The Austin Chronicle article “Who Killed Father Ryan?” by Jordan Smith, Texas Court of Appeals documents, and Scott Lomax’s book “The Case of James Harry Reyos: A Wrongful Conviction Revealed” were used as sources for this episode.#WhoKilledFatherRyan #PardonJamesHarryReyos #Odessa #OdessaTX #EctorCountyTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #ColdCase #Unsolved #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Homicide #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast
The Disappearance of Lina Sardar Khil Part 2
04-02-2023
The Disappearance of Lina Sardar Khil Part 2
Almost immediately upon the San Antonio Police taking to social media to try and get the word out about missing child Lina Sardar Khil, things got ugly. Completely fabricated details about what happened that supported bigoted theories, victim blaming, and unhinged conspiracy theories that had everyone from the founder of Eagles Flight Advocacy & Outreach to the assistant to United States Senator from Texas John Cornyn in on...something never fully fleshed out. But things got even scarier as Lina’s father was accosted and almost assaulted, more than once, and as YouTube influencers and TikTokers faked volunteering for searches to create content and stalk those involved in the effort. Part 2 of 2.If you have any information about the disappearance of Lina Sardar Khil, please call the San Antonio Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit at (210)207-7660, Crime Stoppers of San Antonio at (210)224-7867, or the FBI’s San Antonio field office at (210)225-6741Please donate to help get #JusticeForLeonLaureles at gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorial/Find gone cold – texas true crime on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastThe New York Times, The San Antonio News-Express, ValleyCentral.com, ksat.com, people.com, and kxan.com were used as sources for this episode#JusticeForLinaSardarKhil #LinaSardarKhil #WhereIsLinaSardarKhil #SanAntonio #SanAntonioTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Missing #MissingPerson #Vanished #Disappeared #Unsolved #UnsolvedMysteries
The Disappearance of Lina Sardar Khil Part 1
31-01-2023
The Disappearance of Lina Sardar Khil Part 1
The Sardar Khils came to San Antonio, Texas from the Khost Province of Afghanistan in 2019, after being granted a special visa by the United States. Thanks to a supportive and uplifting Afghan refugee community there, the family landed on their feet and their lives seemed to be heading in the right direction, a good direction. On December 20th, 2021, however, Riaz and Zarmeena Sardar Khil were met with a tragedy far worse than living in fear in their homeland, when their three-year-old daughter Lina vanished. Though they responded to this crisis fairly well, the San Antonio Police failed to find so much as a trace of the missing little girl. Part 1 of 2.If you have any information about the disappearance of Lina Sardar Khil, please call the San Antonio Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit at (210)207-7660, Crime Stoppers of San Antonio at (210)224-7867, or the FBI’s San Antonio field office at (210)225-6741Check out our friends’ podcast Coffee and Cases, whose trailer you heard this episode, wherever you get your podcasts.Please donate to help get #JusticeForLeonLaureles at gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorial/Find gone cold – texas true crime on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastThe New York Times, Texas Monthly’s article “An Afghan Family Came to San Antonio Seeking a Safer Future. Then Their Child Went Missing.” by Bekah McNeel, The San Antonio News-Express, ValleyCentral.com, ksat.com, people.com, and kxan.com were used as sources for this episode #JusticeForLinaSardarKhil #LinaSardarKhil #WhereIsLinaSardarKhil #SanAntonio #SanAntonioTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Missing #MissingPerson #Unsolved #UnsolvedMysteries
The Killings of Mary Morris Part 3: Mary Lou
12-01-2023
The Killings of Mary Morris Part 3: Mary Lou
The investigation into Mary Lou Morris’s October 12th, 2000 murder was going nowhere for Harris County Texas Sheriff’s Office detectives. All the physical evidence had literally gone up in flames, which was perhaps the biggest clue – that her killer either planned the terrible crime carefully or had plenty of time after to cover their tracks. Finding a motive was damn near as impossible. Mary Lou’s daughter Marilyn was 25 years old at the time, and vividly remembers the day her mother went missing and her smoldering car was found. She noticed plenty to cause her to be suspicious of one man then and in the proceeding years, another inserted himself into the case causing further confusion.Very special thanks to Marilyn for speaking with us for this episodeIf you have any information about the murder of Mary Lou Morris or Mary Teresa Morris, please contact the Harris County Sheriff’s Office at (713)274-9100 or Crime Stoppers of Houston at 713-222-TIPS (8477)You can support gone cold and listen ad-free at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcast Find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastWe highly recommend listening to the following podcasts, which were used as sources for this episode: The Murder In My Family’s episode here: spreaker.com/user/11688200/mary-henderson-morris ...... and The Prosecutors Podcast’s Mary Morris episodes, beginning with part 1: prosecutorspodcast.com/2020/12/15/47-the-murders-of-mary-morris-double-visionOther sources for this episode are The Baytown Sun, The Houston Chronical, The Austin American-Statesman, and ABCnews.com #JusticeForMaryLouMorris #JusticeForMaryTeresaMorris #JusticeForMaryMorris #BaytownTX #SugarLandTX #Houston #HarrisCountyTX #TX #Texas #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast #ColdCase #UnsolvedMysteries #UnsolvedMurder
The Killings of Mary Morris Part 2: Mary Teresa
30-12-2022
The Killings of Mary Morris Part 2: Mary Teresa
While the investigation into the murder of 48-year-old Mary Lou Morris was just beginning, another woman – 39-year-old Mary Teresa Morris – was killed brutally. Though there was far more evidence to be had in Mary Teresa’s case, Harris County Sheriff’s Office Detectives came up empty handed. As they investigated the usual suspect – Mary Teresa’s husband – another seemingly good suspect emerged, one who seemed to have it out for the victim. While potential motive was there, however, clues tying either man to the scene of the crime were virtually nonexistent, no matter what the media lead readers and viewers to believe. Part 2 of 3.If you have any information about the murder of Mary Lou Morris or Mary Teresa Morris, please contact the Harris County Sheriff’s Office at (713)274-9100 or Crime Stoppers of Houston at 713-222-TIPS (8477)You can support gone cold and listen ad-free at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcast Find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastWe highly recommend listening to the following podcasts, which were used as sources for this episode: The Prosecutors Podcast’s Mary Morris episodes, beginning with part 1: prosecutorspodcast.com/2020/12/15/47-the-murders-of-mary-morris-double-vision ......and The Murder In My Family’s episode here: spreaker.com/user/11688200/mary-henderson-morris Other sources for this episode are The Baytown Sun, The Houston Chronical, The Austin American-Statesman, and ABCnews.com #JusticeFroMaryLouMorris #JusticeForMaryTeresaMorris#JusticeForMaryMorris #BaytownTX #Houston #HarrisCountyTX #TX #Texas #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast #ColdCase #UnsolvedMysteries #UnsolvedMurder
The Killings of Mary Morris Part 1
19-12-2022
The Killings of Mary Morris Part 1
On October 12th, 2000, 48-year-old Mary Morris left her Baytown, Texas home headed for work. Later that afternoon, when her husband discovered she’d never made it, he reported her missing and went searching alongside his stepdaughter. At 5 PM that day, Mary’s car was found smoldering after having been set afire. The day of Mary Lou Morris’s funeral, October 16th, 2000, another woman was discovered dead in her vehicle in northwest Houston, about 37 miles away. A connection between these two heinous crimes, perhaps, would have never been theorized if it weren’t for the fact that the second woman’s name was also Mary Morris. Part 1 of 2.If you have any information about the murder of Mary Lou Morris or Mary Teresa Morris, please contact the Harris County Sheriff’s Office at (713)274-9100 or Crime Stoppers of Houston at 713-222-TIPS (8477)You can support gone cold and listen ad-free at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcast Sources for this episode include The Baytown Sun, The Houston Chronical, The Austin American-Statesman, and ABCnews.com#JusticeFroMaryLouMorris #JusticeForMaryTeresaMorris #JusticeForMaryMorris #BaytownTX #Houston #HarrisCountyTX #TX #Texas #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast #ColdCase #UnsolvedMysteries #UnsolvedMurder
The Savage & Forgotten Murder of Ora Lee Prescott
12-12-2022
The Savage & Forgotten Murder of Ora Lee Prescott
Fort Worth, Texas in the 1970s was a stomping ground for killers. In February of that year, 25-year-old June Ward was brutally murdered and thrown on the side of West Fuller. While June’s case hardly got the press and investigative effort she deserved, a slaying that occurred in the summer got much less. On June 4th, 1977, workers cleaning up at Sycamore Park south of downtown found the body of 31-year-old Ora Lee Prescott. After quickly identifying who they thought her killer was and then failing to produce sufficient evidence to charge him, the Fort Worth Police simply gave up, leaving her casefile to collect dust, by all indications, for 45 years now. Tragically, Ora Lee’s daughter, too, was slain by a serial rapist and two-time convicted murderer almost 20 years after her mother.If you have any information about the unsolved murder of Ora Lee Prescott, please contact the Fort Worth Police Cold Case Unit at (817)392-4307 or email coldcase@fortworthpd.comCheck out our pal Theron Georges’ beautiful Aluminum, Space-Age Christmas Tree books at evergleambook.com You also need Theron’s YouTube videos in your holiday life, trust me, and you can find those and subscribe at youtube.com/@spaceagechristmastreesAlso, check out season 5 of our friend T.Z.’s podcast Tapes from the Darkside anywhere you listen to podcasts, or right here: tapesfromthedarkside.comYou can support gone cold – texas true crime at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcastThe Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Mansfield News-Mirror, The Washington Post, The LA Times, and passive aggressively redacted police reports were used as sources for this episode.#JusticeForOraLeePrescott #JusticeForJuneWard #FortWorth #FortWorthTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Unsolved #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #FebruarySlayings #BathtubKiller
The Sensationalized Slaying of Joyce Stein Part 3
05-12-2022
The Sensationalized Slaying of Joyce Stein Part 3
Detectives had few leads in the April 11th, 1976, slaying of 38-year-old Joyce Packey Stein. But they did have a weirdo, the victim’s boyfriend Dr. Gary Ferris. Perhaps prematurely satisfied with the alibis of other persons of interest, particularly Joyce’s abusive ex-husband Stanley, the Terrell Hills Police and Bexar County Sheriff’s Office put on their blinders and pursued Dr. Gary with fervor. But was the man’s odd behavior simply come from his inability to cope with his girlfriend’s brutal murder by gunshot? Part 3 of 3.If you have any information about the 1976 murder of Lillian Joyce Packey Stein, please contact the Terrell Hills Police Department at (210) 824-1009Special thanks to the Terrell Hills Police Department and Sgt. GutierrezIf you are being abused, please get help and contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233 or visit thehotline.org You can also get help by texting START to 88788 from your cellphoneThe San Antonio Express, The San Antonio News, and police records were used as sources for this episode.#JusticeForJoyceStein #TerrellHillsTX #SanAntonio #BexarCountyTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Unsolved
The Sensationalized Slaying of Joyce Stein Part 2
28-11-2022
The Sensationalized Slaying of Joyce Stein Part 2
38-year-old Joyce Packey Stein was found lying in a pool of blood on April 12th, 1976. As Terrell Hills and San Antonio PDs began investigating the murder scene and collecting interviews alongside the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, Joyce’s ex-husband Stanley and boyfriend Dr. Ferris become suspicious to police for their odd actions and behaviors. When a so-called “little black book” is found, it creates problems for Detectives as they pursue many leads and eventually leads to a free for all feast of the imagination for local tabloid-style newspapers – the only kind that seems to have existed in San Antonio at the time. Part 2 of 3.If you have any information about the 1976 murder of Lillian Joyce Packey Stein, please contact the Terrell Hills Police Department at (210) 824-1009Special thanks to the Terrell Hills Police Department and Sgt. GutierrezIf you are being abused, please get help and contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233 or visit thehotline.org You can also get help by texting START to 88788 from your cellphoneThe San Antonio Light, The San Antonio Express, The San Antonio News, and police records were used as sources for this episode.#JusticeForJoyceStein #TerrellHillsTX #SanAntonio #BexarCountyTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Unsolved
The Sensationalized Slaying of Joyce Stein Part 1
22-11-2022
The Sensationalized Slaying of Joyce Stein Part 1
In the moonlight hours of April 11th, 1976, gunshots rang out in the small, suburban town of Terrell Hills, Texas. Many heard or were awakened by the terrifying commotion, and while some might have believed there was some trouble at the nearby bar, the shots actually occurred in a home there. The home of 38-year-old Joyce Packey Stein, who was found the following day lying in a pool of blood. Divorced the previous year after a long and abusive marriage, Joyce was no stranger to tragedy. She’d seen plenty in her short life. But who would want her dead? According to newspaper articles written by hack reporters foaming at the mouth to get creative off someone else’s tragedy, there were plenty of people. Part 1 of 3.If you have any information about the 1976 murder of Lillian Joyce Packey Stein, please contact the Terrell Hills Police Department at (210) 824-1009Special thanks to the Terrell Hills Police Department and Sgt. GutierrezIf you are being abused, please get help and contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233 or visit thehotline.org #JusticeForJoyceStein #TerrellHillsTX #SanAntonio #BexarCountyTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Unsolved
Case Updates, Fall 2022 Part 2
14-11-2022
Case Updates, Fall 2022 Part 2
On Part 2 of 2 of our Fall Texas Case Update episodes, we discuss the recent arrest in the horrific 2019 murder of Polunsky Unit prison guard Rhonda Richardson in Shepard, the arrest of Chad Earl Carl (FINALLY) for the savage 2007 slaying of Brittany McGlone in Wood County, the arrest of the man responsible for the disturbing murders of Frank Santoni Thornhill, Connie Villa, and 3-year-old Dante Santoni Villa in El Paso in 1994, and the unfathomable killing of 8-year-old Jennifer Sue Delgado.If you have any information about Jennifer Sue Delgado’s murder, please contact the Texas Attorney General’s cold case unit at texasattorneygeneral.gov/divisions/criminal-justice/cold-case-and-missing-persons-unit/cold-case-contact or call Crime Stoppers of San Antonio at (210)224-7867, where you can remain anonymousIf you have any information about Brittany McGlone’s murder or suspect Chad Earl Carr, please contact the Wood County Sheriff’s Office at (903)763-2201If you have any information about the murders of Frank Santoni Thornhill, Connie Villa, and Dante Santoni Villa, please call the El Paso police at (915) 832-4400If you have any additional information that might help ensure justice for Rhonda Richardson, please contact the San Jacinto County Sheriff’s Office at (936) 653-4367Sources for this episode include the Wood County Monitor, the San Antonio Express-News, the El Paso Times, the Fort Worth Press, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, the San Jacinto News-Times, and official documents.Thanks for listening, y’all
Case Updates, Fall 2022 Part 1
07-11-2022
Case Updates, Fall 2022 Part 1
There have been many suspect arrests, convictions, and renewed investigations in Texas cold cases already in the Fall of 2022. This episode, we’ll go over a few things in the 1996 murder case of Leon Laureles in Brown County, talk about the arrest of Feng Lu - the alleged murderer of the Sun Family in Cypress, discuss the identification of Brazoria County Jane Doe as Alisha Marie Cooks after 36 years, and talk about the conviction of Daniel Andrew MacGinnis for the sexual assault and murder of Patricia Ann Jacobs in southeast Texas.If you have any information about the murder of Juan Leon Laureles, contact the Texas Rangers by calling 800-346-3243 or by visiting their website at dps.texas.govYou can also call anonymously to crime stoppers at 800-222-TIPS, or 800-222-8477If you’d prefer to donate to the #JusticeForLeon go fund me, you can here: gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorialIf you have any information about the Sun Family murders or the suspect Feng Lu, call the Harris County Sheriff’s Office at (713) 221-6000Anyone with information about the 1985 murder of Alisha Marie Cooks is encouraged to call the Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office at (281)756-2392 or Brazoria County Crime Stoppers at (800)460-2222If you have any information of the death of Nelda Faye Widener, please contact the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office at (409) 384-5417. Should you have information about any other crimes Daniel Andrew MacGinnis might have committed, please phone the Texas Rangers at 800-346-3243 or Crime Stoppers at 800-222-TIPS, or 800-222-8477The Houston Chronicle, The Silsbee Bee, The Beaumont Enterprise, KJAS.com, DPS.Texas.gov, and Court Documents were used as sources for this episode
The Lake Worth Monster
30-10-2022
The Lake Worth Monster
The year 1969 is one of the most historically eventful years in the history of the United States. Pop culture, counterculture, culture wars, the fight for equal rights, and a war that seemed to neither have an end nor purpose. But in the Summer of 69, folks in Fort Worth, Texas and the surrounding areas took respite from the stresses of this vital but anxiety inducing year by hunting down a thing. Reports of a creature who lived in the deep, dense thicket on Lake Worth’s Greer Island who came out only at night, seemingly to terrorize lovers in their parked cars. By the time the summer ended, nearly 100 folks had claimed they’d caught a glimpse of this half-goat, half-man who quickly became known as The Lake Worth Monster. To this day, no one knows what really happened; was the thing a hoax or was it an unknown species – a monster? We hope you enjoy listening to this special Halloween episode, this palate cleanser of sorts, as much as we enjoyed putting it together.To help get #JusticeForLeonLaureles please visit https://www.gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorialYou can also help by buying a Lake Worth Monster t-shirt at https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/35720992-lake-worth-monster?store_id=421404 100% of the proceeds from the sales will be donated to Leon’s go fund me.Again, if you haven’t already, do yourself a huge favor and check out the podcast Vanishing Postcards. It is truly among the best and the second season is ready to binge right now. https://www.vanishingpostcards.com/The Fort Worth Press, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Dallas Morning News, and the book “The Lake Worth Monster of Greer Island, Fort Worth, Texas” by Sallie Ann Clarke were used as sources for this episode.#LakeWorthMonster #Goatman #LakeWorthTX #FortWorth #FortWorthTX #Texas #TX #1969 #Cryptid #Cryptozoology #BigFoot #Sasquatch #Yeti #Monster #UnsolvedMysteries #Halloween
The Joplin & Trice Murders in Blue Mound, Texas Part 8: Deadlocked
24-10-2022
The Joplin & Trice Murders in Blue Mound, Texas Part 8: Deadlocked
In 2014, Barry Hinkle moved up to the position of Chief of Police in Blue Mound, Texas. While his responsibilities certainly grew, Hinkle still actively sought to solve the 1976 slayings of Kevin, Brian, Fae, and Wayne Joplin, and family friend Terry Trice. He’d uncovered, or simply investigated, something no investigator in the case ever had – a jailhouse letter written by an inmate to his wife. It implicated a man named Johnny Cotton. As Hinkle investigated Cotton and pieced together a timeline that for the most part was not public knowledge, the jailhouse letter seemed to match. And it looked like the sole surviving Joplin might have hired a man to kill his entire family and set up his former friend as a patsy.If you have any information about the 1976 Joplin Family murders, please contact the Blue Mound Police at (817)232-0665Find gone cold – texas true crime on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastGrand Jury testimony, an anonymous individual once involved in the investigation, Tom Stephenson’s 2018 article in D Magazine titled “Reopening the Blue Mound Massacre,” and The Dallas Morning-News were used as sources for this episode#JusticeForTheJoplinFamily #JusticeForTerryTrice #BlueMound #BlueMoundTX #FortWorth #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Unsolved #FamilyAnnihilator
The Joplin & Trice Murders in Blue Mound, Texas Part 7: Johnny Cotton
17-10-2022
The Joplin & Trice Murders in Blue Mound, Texas Part 7: Johnny Cotton
After the grand jury wrapped up their investigation into the Joplin and Trice murders, unhappily at that, the media essentially turned their back on the story. More disturbingly, it seems the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office did the same. While most folks the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex over were paying attention to the new high profile murder case in town, residents of Blue Mound were stuck wondering if a murderer walked among them. In 2011, a new Blue Mound cop decided he’d like to get a shot at breaking the Joplin / Trice murder case. It was Deputy Police chief Barry Hinkle who, more than 3 decades after the horrific slayings, uncovered the most promising lead the case had ever known in the form of a guy known as “Johnny Cotton.” Part 7 of 8.If you have any information about the 1976 Joplin Family murders, please contact the Blue Mound Police at (817)232-0665Find gone cold – texas true crime on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastGrand Jury testimony, an anonymous individual once involved in the investigation, and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram were used as sources for this episode#JusticeForTheJoplinFamily #JusticeForTerryTrice #BlueMound #BlueMoundTX #FortWorth #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Unsolved #FamilyAnnihilator
The Joplin & Trice Murders in Blue Mound, Texas Part 6: “No. Hell no.”
10-10-2022
The Joplin & Trice Murders in Blue Mound, Texas Part 6: “No. Hell no.”
The first two-thirds of Gregg Wayne Joplin’s testimony at the grand jury investigation into the murders of his entire family and friend Terry Trice were riddled with inconsistencies and, seemingly, impossibilities. The final hour or so was no different. After he was dismissed, Terry Trice’s close friend Valdemar Gomez Junior took the stand. It’s unclear if the teenager was nervous or simply could not recall details well, but his testimony, too, contradicted the testimony of others and even his own. In the end, grand jurors were unable to suggest an indictment or even provide many answers. The case, from that point on, was unofficially concluded.If you have any information about the 1976 Joplin Family murders, please contact the Blue Mound Police at (817)232-0665Find gone cold – texas true crime on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastGrand Jury testimony and The Fort Worth Star-Telegram were used as sources for this episode#JusticeForTheJoplinFamily #JusticeForTerryTrice #BlueMound #BlueMoundTX #FortWorth #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Unsolved #FamilyAnnihilator