At the end of July 2011, the small towns of Fannett and Hamshire, just southwest of Beaumont, Texas, became the center of an ongoing mystery. Sharon West, a 14-year-old girl who was at her Dad?s for the summer, vanished. For three months there was absolutely no trace of the teenager but at the end of October, Sharon?s remains were found not far from where she is last thought to have been. Her body was completely skeletonized and there were no tell-tale signs of foul play on her bones. The Jefferson County Medical Examiner struggled to rule on Sharon?s cause of death. Investigators for the Sheriff?s Department, too, were finding no clues as to what happened to Sharon West...and they?re no closer to finding answers today.

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The year 1976 was shaping up to be as violent and bloody as the previous year in Lubbock, Texas, beginning with the mysterious death of Marcella Valenzuela in January. Her death led investigators and newspaper reporters to a frenzied and paranoid theory: that a, quote, ?gay sex-drug cult? had infiltrated the city. But when Elizabeth Price was brutally murdered in April, at least some detectives had sense knocked back into them. The depraved murder of Elizabeth mirrored, in many ways, the 1975 slaying of Debbie Sue Williamson. There were investigators, too, who thought the 1971 deadly attack and torture of Naomi Martin might also be connected.

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This episode we detail how the arrest of Glen Samuel McCurley came to be with the help of David Mittelman of Othram lncorporated, the company who identified the man?s surname through a DNA profile and genetic genealogy. Also, the impact that the arrest had on Carla?s friends, family, and others and how, perhaps, we can honor Carla?s memory.

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Throughout the 1970s, Lubbock Texas lived up the nickname ?Hub City,? though not for the reasons they wanted. It was a hub for criminal activity. The city?s violent crime rate was and is high but a series of unsolved murders from the decade still haunt Lubbock to this day. These are the stories of two of the victims of brutal slayings that both occurred in the year 1975: Vickie June Stroud Stokes in March or early April of that year and Deborah Sue Agnew Williamson in August.

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On July 19th, 1969, Senator Edward Kennedy, scion of the greatest political dynasty in modern America, drove his Oldsmobile into a pond. He escaped. But his passenger, a woman named Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned. In the days that followed, he leveraged the Kennedy political machine to shield himself from scrutiny and safeguard his presidential aspirations. As the investigation progressed, his story about the events leading up to the crash started to fall apart. Soon he faced accusations that not even the Kennedys could overcome. This season of Even the Rich tells the story of Chappaquiddick.

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Though El Paso?s homicide rate lags significantly behind the national average, murders in the West Texas desert city can be dark and gruesome. Not many compare in sheer brutality and violence, however, to the August 1994 slayings of Francisco Santoni Thornhill, Maria Concepcion Villa, and three-year-old Dante Santoni Villa. The murders didn?t see much press, but residents of El Paso, particularly the Montwood area, were shaken by the savage killings; they became fearful and stricken with paranoia. Though a theory as to what happened was imagined by detectives, a clear motive and suspect were never developed.

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After months of investigating the August 1981 slaying of Carmen Croan, the Ector County Sheriff?s Office was frustrated, particularly investigator David Saunders. After the bizarre kidnapping of an Odessa man, though, a suspect ? a good suspect ? fell into the department?s lap. After investigating the man and collecting evidence against him quietly and without informing the press, District Attorney Mike Holmes was ready to ask a grand jury for an indictment in December of 81. They got their indictment but court appointed defense attorneys for the suspect fought the charges hard, collecting a celebrity forensic expert who?d testified at Ted Bundy?s trial and a rockstar psychologist who?d given police in Georgia a psych profile for the Atlanta Child Murderer. After a slew of postponements, the suspect in Carmen?s mutilation murder walked for that charge...and that was after another person of interest, a potential accomplice, was killed in a what was deemed a freak accident.

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Ector County Sheriff?s Office investigator David Saunders called the August 1981 slaying of Carmen Croan ?not your everyday murder.? Though the quote hardly described the brutality and sheer evil of the crime, the case sent chills to the hardened investigator?s core. He?d never seen anything like it, and it was hardly the first savage and explicitly violent death Odessa and Ector County had dealt with in the years leading up to it. The mutilation murder of Carmen was gruesome and macabre. The emotional and psychological ramifications investigators faced was immense. The twists and turns, too, were frustrating.

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When Jimmy and Tina met online through a friend?s Facebook post, it was almost as if it were meant to be. The two had a lot in common, including connections through family to their home state of Indiana. One morning in June of 2015, Tina decided to make the trip from her home in Arlington, Texas to Jimmy?s house in Kyle, just south of Austin. The day should have been a good one, new beginnings for both Tina and Jimmy perhaps. Shortly after they ate breakfast at a Kyle restaurant just off the highway, however, Jimmy and Tina were killed in his home. Though two strong suspects in the double murder emerged, one thought to have a strong motive, the case remains unresolved.

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In November of 2017, patrol officers from the small city of Corinth came across a vehicle parked in a vacant lot with the lights on. They approached the suspicious car and discovered the body of a woman, riddled with gunshot wounds. She was soon identified as Amanda Clairmont, a 21-year-old well-liked University of North Texas student. A motive for the young woman?s murder eluded investigators and so did evidence.

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It was unusually cold in New Braunfels, Texas on February 4th, 2011 and the icy roads were brushed lightly with snow. That evening, 18-month-old Joshua JayVaughn Davis Junior went missing from his home. A massive search effort was conducted but the little boy was never found. The New Braunfels Police, having come up with a theory as to what happened to Little Joshua, didn?t sway much in their investigative efforts to work other potential leads. Is it possible they missed one that was right in front of them the whole time?

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In May of 2018, after having problems with the caretaker of his Rains County, Texas ranch, 57-year-old George Chronis headed down from his home in suburban Chicago, Illinois to handle the situation. It wasn?t just a business trip though; the overworked doctor with multiple Sclerosis also sought a break from the stress of life as an obstetrician / gynecologist. He hadn?t been at the ranch for three years, so he was shocked to arrive and find that the bunkhouse there had been inhabited by someone unknown. After calling his wife and discussing the situation, the bunkhouse burned to the ground and George was found dead...but not from injuries that resulted from the fire. To this day, more than two years later, what happened to Dr. George Chronis remains a mystery.

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In October 1993, Thurgood Marshall School of Law student Dawn Williams vanished without so much as a trace. Fellow students, friends, and family searched everywhere but no clues were found. Houston Police, too, failed to find anything at all. The following month, a crew cleaning trash from an area in rural Montgomery County found the 25-year-old women?s body buried in a shallow grave, partially unearthed by animals. Police, and especially Dawn?s father, had a good idea what happened to her and who did it, but evidence has eluded investigators for nearly 27 years.

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A suspect finally emerged in the January 1978 slaying of seventeen-year-old Lecia Ann McGee in 2009 ? more than 30 years later. DNA linked the man to Lecia?s brutal death, but the Tarrant County District Attorney declined to bring the case before a grand jury, siting insufficient evidence as the reason. Fort Worth Homicide Detectives disagreed. Was the man a suspect in the initial 1978 investigation, when he was just a teenager, or did detectives then make a an unforgivable mistake by disregarding him as such?

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January 1978 was an unusually cold month in Fort Worth, Texas. Though the city would brag about falling murder rates that year, when it was all said and done, the year was just as deadly as many before it...and even more to come. One of the many homicides the city had seen in 1978 was the unthinkable killing of seventeen-year-old Lecia Ann McGee, a well-liked teenager who didn?t make enemies. Though the brutality of her killing seemed personal, that motive was highly unlikely, and the case was more or less cold from the moment her body was discovered. Decades would pass before a viable suspect emerged but evidence against him, the Tarrant County District Attorney said, was slim to none.

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In January of 1996, Camille Norman, daughter of a popular 1960s revival evangelist, was brutally killed at her home in the Dallas suburb of Pleasant Grove. The day before, an elderly woman in the adjoining city of Balch Springs was also slain, a crime that detectives believed to be connected, if only for a short time. The Balch Springs case was cleared quickly by police but Camille?s murder was cold from the get-go...and stayed that way.

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In January of 1985, siblings Michael and Pamela Mayfield were last seen getting into a vehicle willfully on their way home from school. The six-year-old and five-year-old, respectively, were never seen again. Efforts to locate the two children were relatively extensive. The Missing Children Milk Carton Program was new and gaining momentum fast, and the Mayfield Children were featured there, on nationwide news, and at the end of the third broadcast of the Adam Walsh television movie. No trace, however, of what happened to the two vibrant children was ever found.

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Port Lavaca, Texas isn?t on the short list of the most well-known town in the Lone Star State. Many have never even heard of the bay city, in fact, particularly those out of state. Perhaps everyone should have, though. Several mysteries that remain unsolved have taken place there. Unfortunately, crimes such as the multiple slayings at the Crossroads Tavern in 1981 received little press outside Port Lavaca and, frankly, not a whole lot in the town?s press. The disappearances of Wanda Priddy and Kathie Collins received even less attention. One thing is clear: the city?s police, as well as Calhoun County, weren?t experienced enough to handle the crimes.

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When the frozen, headless body of a woman was found off a deserted road in rural Hale County just outside of Plainview in 1982, the case was cold from the start. Months later, when a skull was found in Maricopa County, Arizona, it was sent to Texas and determined to belong to the headless woman by pathologist Ralph Erdmann. Years later, however, Erdmann was found to have falsified countless autopsies all over West Texas and the Panhandle. Add to Erdmann?s ineptitude the false confession of Henry Lee Lucas, and justice for Plainview Jane Doe was seemingly hindered at every turn. Her name is still not known.

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One detective called the slaying of Cheryl Ann Callaway ?the most vicious murder in Arlington?s history.? On January 30th, 1974, just months before she was to be married, 18-year-old Cheryl?s life was taken. The murder was brutal and unimaginable, and the killer, it seemed, came out of nowhere. No one who knew Cheryl could imagine who would have a reason to kill the young women; she had no enemies. Revelations in the case eventually came but either it was too late, evidence to support the new leads was scarce, or detectives working the case just didn?t buy it. After many lines of investigation, including inquiries into several well-known and lesser-known killers, Cheryl?s case went cold and remains unsolved.

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The morning of Monday, October 26th, 1998 was like any other for Peggy Lynn Howard and her young daughter. The two got up, performed their normal morning routine, and left their home for school and work. The morning ended tragically, however, and the young mother and daughter wouldn?t even make it in the car. Six-year-old Allyssa was holding her mother?s hand when she was gunned down outside the condominium. Peggy?s killer has never been brought to justice for her murder.

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After Texas Tech University closed the 2000 school year, most of Stefanie Hill?s friends had gone on vacation or home to spend the summer with family. Stefanie stayed in Lubbock to work, however, and shortly after arriving home in the early morning hours of Monday, May 29th, Memorial Day, she was savagely murdered and set on fire in her own apartment. Because of the fire, there was little evidence left at the crime scene. Stefanie?s lifestyle was as low risk as could be imagined, so Lubbock detectives struggled coming up with anyone who had a motive to kill her. From the outside looking in, it appears that investigators never identified a strong suspect in the case.

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On October 7th, 1988, when Texas A&M University senior Rene Richerson disappeared from her job as the night clerk at the Casa Del Mar Condo-Hotel Complex, signs of foul play were few and far between. Investigators, however, soon began looking a little closer and the 22-year-old?s disappearance could only be explained as an abduction. For years, tips from anonymous callers continued to point the finger at a handful of individuals but the information they gave never seemed to turn up much at all. Rene, or her remains, have never been found.

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Fourteen-year-old Sondra Kay Ramber vanished from her home without so much as a trace in 1983, not long after moving to the town of Santa Fe, Texas. Two years later, in 1985, seventeen-year-old Santa Fe resident Michelle Doherty Thomas disappeared after leaving with two friends for a night out in Galveston. Sondra and Michelle?s cases garnered very little media attention. Even when, in 1986 and 1988, two other disappearances in the area created a media blitz, Michelle and Sondra?s stories remained on the wayside.

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When Lake LBJ was partially drained to make way for the construction of a thermal power plant in 1970, a new development was also made in a five-year-old mystery. That was when Charlene Frances Sigler vanished without a trace. After this discovery, Charlene was dubbed by the press as ?The Lady in the Lake.? While Llano County Sheriff Porter Gale Ligon had thoughts on what happened, and tried to piece together the mystery, his efforts were ultimately in vain.

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In the early morning hours of March 26th, 2001, a neighbor of 26-year-old Megan Curl smelled something burning. When they investigated, they discovered a fire coming from Megan?s apartment, smoke billowing from the bedroom window. When firefighters extinguished the blaze, they found Megan Curl?s body badly burned, and deceased, on her bed. The nature of her death was gruesome, and the young woman had been burned after she died, presumably to destroy evidence. Though a suspect emerged fairly quickly, law enforcement was unable to collect evidence against him. The case remains unsolved to this day.

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After leaving her house for a walk in the woods on the afternoon of October 19th, 2001, fifteen-year-old Jessica Sadler vanished. Though police deemed her a runaway, family and volunteers from all around came to Leverett?s Chapel Texas to aid in the search for her. Shortly after the FBI became involved, Jessica?s body was found at an illegal dump site under discarded construction materials. An eighteen-year-old senior at Jessica?s school confessed to having sex with her that day after hours of police interrogations but vehemently denied knowledge of her death. The cold case remains unsolved to this day.

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Far worse can be imagined that the death of an innocent child at the hands of a predator. In 2019, luckily, Salem Sabatka?s fate was not death, thanks to a swift response by both the Fort Worth Police and the public. In the summer of 1998 in the Rosemont suburb of Fort Worth, however, 8-year-old Edna Rodriguez met a terrible fate, after disappearing from her home in the middle of the night. Virtually no clues were left behind that provided a lead to her whereabouts and when her body was later found, the circumstances of the discovery were produced a new mystery. Edna was, by all accounts, an outgoing and playful child from a close family, in a tight-knit neighborhood. How, then, has her killer gone undetected for over twenty years?

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In April of 1988, the murder of a young, 19-year-old woman left the Harris County Sheriff?s Office horrified. Detectives then and in the years following were haunted by the excessive methods used by Jacqueline Graham?s killer. For some reason, however, the media failed to follow up much beyond the few articles published in the days after. Some investigators zeroed in on a suspect immediately, though other officers weren?t so sure. Did the detectives charged with solving Jacqueline?s murder botch the case with tunnel vision?

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In the twilight hours of Saturday, August 23rd, 1983, Officer LC Tribble was gunned down in his patrol vehicle outside his Farmers Branch, Texas apartment after dropping off medicine to his ill two-year-old son. Virtually no evidence of who murdered LC could be found on the scene and eyewitnesses? descriptions of men fleeing provided little to no help. Though LC?s slaying was reviewed time and time again with fresh eyes, the case remained ice cold for 27 years until, in 2010, came a supposed break. Questions about the validity of the new information and accusations of corruption in the system itself arose, however, and the case again went cold.

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On November 11th, 1970, Veteran?s Day, the bloody body of Doris Lorene Rivers was found in her El Paso apartment by her sister and 5-year-old son. Though the police were able to identify a suspect early in the initial investigation, the District Attorney refused to indict the men due to lack of evidence. The case was buried in El Paso Police?s cold case files for 43 years until, in 2013, Doris?s granddaughter phoned the department for information on the case. A suspect was again identified...but justice, still, was not served. Because of the nature of this particular failure, it likely never will be.

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On June 1st, 1948, Mary Virginia Carpenter stepped off Texas-Pacific train 31 in Denton and stepped into oblivion. ?The world swallowed her up,? Texas Ranger Lewis Rigler later said of the 21-year-old?s disappearance. There was little to no trace of Virginia, that much is true, and the likely suspect?s involvement couldn?t be proven or even clearly ascertained. As the years went on, however, that suspect, the person who is thought to have seen her last, became an even more likely one. Still, nothing solid against him could ever be found. Rigler, quoted above, never shook the feeling that Virginia?s disappearance was somehow connected to the Texarkana Phantom Killings.

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On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, the body of Elizabeth Bettis was found in a field in rural Travis County. She was last seen leaving her place of employment, Sugar?s adult entertainment, the evening before with a mystery man. The seemingly contradicting two worlds in which she lived, that of a coed and that of a topless dancer, made the Travis County Sheriff?s Department?s investigation unusual...and difficult. Though a serial rapist and a cop were scrutinized for Elizabeth?s slaying, a lack of evidence had prevented movement on the case, and it remains unsolved today.

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After Holly Palmer?s brutal beating death on November 27th, 1988, Granbury Police and Hood County Sheriff?s Department Officers began looking anywhere and everywhere for someone who might have wanted to kill the young woman. They felt it was someone who knew Holly well, someone she trusted not to hurt her, but authorities were perplexed. It seemed no one had anything against her. Except, perhaps, one individual whose name kept popping up.

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Holly Palmer was a well-liked and much-admired resident of Granbury, Texas. At 23 years old, she had her entire life ahead of her and she was well on her way to living it. She was working while also pursuing creative interests that might prove in the future to be lucrative. Holly had a loving family and a lot of support, particularly from her close sisters, mother, and stepfather. Just after Thanksgiving of 1988, on November 27th, her life was taken, ripped away in an act of rage that shook Granbury to its core; Holly was found brutally beaten to death in the Greyhound bus station she managed there.

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In July of 1969 in the small town of Panhandle, Texas, Elsa Romo-Nickell was found murdered on her bed as the morning alarm that was meant to wake her buzzed loudly. Leads were scarce as the crime scene was contaminated but a couple months later in nearby Skellytown, another murder which bore similarities took place. Though that lead and the few others police had seemed promising at first, including new information that investigators uncovered as late as 2017, Elsa?s murder is still unsolved.

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On December 27th, 2010, thirteen-year-old Hailey Darlene Dunn vanished. The media frenzy that ensued after her disappearance often seemed as if the girl herself had been forgotten. Billie Jean Dunn, Hailey?s mother, along with her live-in boyfriend, Shawn Adkins, were immediately under the scrutinization of police and the press. Though a few solid reasons to suspect Adkins? involvement in Hailey?s disappearance certainly existed, perhaps law enforcement?s efforts went a little too far when they hit Billie Jean, too...but, perhaps not. Almost three years after she disappeared, Hailey?s remains were found in a rural part of the county adjoining hers. No one has ever been brought to justice for her murder, and though they might have been on the right track, the media?s sensationalism was certainly exploitative.

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Just after Christmas in 1993, the body of 38-year-old Latricia ?Trish? White was found by her worried father who?d come to check on her. She?d been shot to death in her own bed. Her boyfriend, Lee ?Dub? Wackerhagen, and his son, Chance Wackerhagen, were nowhere to be found. Police all but immediately came to the conclusion that Dub killed Trish in a rage and fled with Chance. For well over two decades, in fact, Dub was the only suspect. He and Chance were never seen again and when a Texas Ranger began re-investigating the case, he found that the original investigators might have suffered from tunnel vision in their efforts to solve the crimes.

Check out the guest post on thetruecrimefiles.com about this case, by Julia at Considering Cold Cases.
You can also check out that blog for other great coverage of unsolved cases at consideringcoldcases.wordpress.com

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When she dropped her husband back off at work after picking him up for lunch on Monday, December 10th, 1984, Sharon ?Sarah? McCully had an errand to run. That evening, when her husband John returned home, Sarah was nowhere to be found. Two days later, her car was found. Exactly one week later, at practically the same time of day, another woman disappeared and was later found brutally murdered in her vehicle. She?d also been bound and raped. The similarities between the two cases were striking but there was one major difference: Sarah has never been seen again, alive or dead.

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On August 7th, 1996, six-year-old Katherine Korzilius got out of her mother?s car to walk the rest of the way home. The walk was only about an eighth of a mile and when her daughter didn?t return, Nancy Korzilius was worried. She went looking for her daughter and found her lying unconscious in the road in the opposite direction from where she was walking. Katherine succumbed to her injuries later that night. Law enforcement and the Korzilius?s private investigator couldn?t make sense of her death; the case was cold from the very beginning. Katherine?s father, Paul, was the manager and close friend of musician Jon Bon Jovi, who later immortalized the tragedy in his song ?August 7 4:15.?

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On July 4th, 1988, Sally McNelly and Shane Stewart disappeared sometime around midnight. Their bodies were found miles away from where they were last seen months later. Investigators had little to go on and, as was common at the time when no answers could be found, Satanism found its way into law enforcement?s theory. There was no evidence of devil worship or occult activities but the media, including the television show Unsolved Mysteries, jumped all over the chance at helping insert the societal phenomenon of Satanic Panic into Shane and Sally?s narrative. It?s likely part of the reason their case remains unsolved today.

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In Wood County, Texas in May of 2007, Brittany McGlone was murdered, seemingly as she slept, in her boyfriend?s home while everyone who live in the house was away. Nothing else in the home was disturbed or stolen and there were no signs of forced entry. Alibis for everyone who lived in the house were checked out and verified, apparently, but whoever violently bludgeoned Brittany to death most likely had knowledge of the home and the habits of the folks therein. A potentially strong suspect was identified, one with a connection to Brittany?s boyfriend?s family, but police were ultimately unable to make an arrest. Is he responsible for Brittany?s slaying or was it someone not even on law enforcement?s radar? Nineteen-year-old Brittany's killing has devastated her family who struggle to pick up the pieces and who view law enforcement working Brittany's case as combative to their efforts...and for good reason.

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On October 9th, 1984, a mystery began in Mercedes, Texas, adding to the many others in the Rio Grande Valley. Twenty-one-year-old Kim Sue Leggett was kidnapped from her place of employment, Ross Cotton Gin. A phone call that took place literally minutes after she was taken and a ransom letter sent to Kim?s parents a few days later were virtually the only clues Mercedes Police, Hidalgo County Sheriff?s Office investigators, the Texas Rangers, and the FBI had to work with. Kim was never seen alive again; her remains never found. Her kidnapping was cold from the beginning and remains so today.

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On December 9th, 2007, sixty-seven-year-old Marianne Wilkinson was murdered by an assailant who shot her multiple times as she opened her front door. North Richland Hills Police Investigators were stumped; Neither Marianne nor her husband had enemies, no one who had a reason to want Marianne dead. When a neighbor called police and told them that she thought she knew the reason Marianne was slain, a strong, circumstantial theory arose. However, without evidence, investigators were never able to make an arrest.

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In the small town of Stamford, Texas, in September of 1988, seven-year-old Cortney Clayton disappeared after walking to a convenience store down the block from her house to buy a coke. Searches and pleas for information in the media turned up nothing and no sign of the young girl was found until seven months later when hunters discovered her remains in a remote grassland in a neighboring county. No one has ever been brought before justice for her abduction and murder.

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West Texas in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s was seeing more violent crime than ever; the ultimate violence, murder, was certainly no exception. Many cases were solved throughout the region, cases that seemed to have the full attention of the press and of county and city law enforcement agencies...but what about the crimes that were never solved...and that saw little to no media coverage at all? Were the murders of Anna Smith, Iris Neal, and Dorothy Garlington somehow deemed less important than many others?

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From October 1968 to June 1971, five murders shook the residents of Odessa, Texas. Linda Cougot, Eula Miller, Ruth Maynard and Gloria Sue Greene in Odessa, and Nancy Mitchell in nearby Kermit. The deaths had the Odessa Police baffled. A writer for the Odessa American theorized that there was a madman on the loose who chose to perpetrate the slayings in close proximity to full moons. The police, however, likely didn?t buy that, but they did theorize that the murders were connected. After two separate men confessed and were convicted of two of the murders the uncertainty of who really killed the other three women remained...and still does to this day.

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The first half of 1979 kept Houston Police?s homicide department busier than they?d ever been; the year had already broken records for the most violent crimes and murders the city had ever seen. The second half was no different with a series of murders taking place between the end of July and the first several days of October that were so gruesome, so violent in nature ? two beheadings and two victims who were almost decapitated ? that Houstonians were in fear and the police were scrambling to protect their citizens. No one was ever brought to justice for the murders of five individuals who would become synonymous with the name ?The Orchard Apartment murders.? Were they connected?

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