Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

After doing everything they knew to do and after coming to the conclusion that the Fort Worth Police were not, the families of 17-year-old Rachel Trlica, 14-year-old Renee Wilson, and 9-year-old Julie Moseley decided to get some outside help. They hired private investigator Jon Winter Swaim, a polarizing figure in the city who was known to get results, no matter what it took. After chasing down more leads than police, the private eye found the most promising one yet, or at least it looked that way, when human bones were found down in south Texas, in Brazoria County.Submit your DNA data from a consumer testing company to Othram’s database. It’s only used for law enforcement investigations: https://dnasolves.com/user/registerYou can support gone cold – texas true crime at https://www.patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcastThe Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Dallas Morning News, The Alvin Sun, The Tyler Morning Telegraph, and the Brazosport Facts were used as sources for this episode.#MissingTrio #FortWorthMissingTrio #JusticeForReneeJulieAndRachel #FortWorth #FortWorthTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Missing #MissingPerson #Unsolved

In the days and weeks following the disappearances of 17-year-old Rachel Trlica, 14-year-old Renee Wilson, and 9-year-old Julie Moseley on December 24th, 1974, and after the arrival of the infamous letter, things continued to grow more complicated and confusing. Bad tips, terribly cruel prank calls, and strange sightings took up more valuable time than the Wilson’s, the Moseley’s, and the Arnold’s had. Perhaps a few things, however, can be gleaned from the newspaper reports and Fran Arnold’s notes, which kept at the families’ activities at least somewhat documented. Still, though, nothing was panning out at the time...and nothing, really, had panned out in the following decades.Submit your DNA data from a consumer testing company to Othram’s database. It’s only used for law enforcement investigations: https://dnasolves.com/user/registerYou can support gone cold – texas true crime at https://www.patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcastThe Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Dallas Morning News, The Vernon Daily Record, and Private Investigator Findings, and Family Notes were used as sources for this episode.#MissingTrio #FortWorthMissingTrio #JusticeForReneJulieAndRachel #FortWorth #FortWorthTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Missing #MissingPerson #Unsolved

On December 24th, 1974, the day following the disappearances of 17-year-old Rachel Trlica, 14-year-old Renee Wilson, and 9-year-old Julie Moseley – Rachel’s husband received a letter in the mailbox. The letter claimed to be from Rachel and said that the missing girls had gone to Houston to, quote, “get away.” They’d be back in a week, it said. Contrary to what the police initially thought, no one in the families believed the young newlywed had written the note – let alone that the three girls who were so eager for the upcoming Holiday ran off and would miss it. The public got a hold of the letter decades later and speculation and rumor mounted. In 2017, a forensic handwriting expert weighed in with her professional opinion. Still, the mystery of the letters place in the disappearance of the Missing Trio continues to hold more questions than answers.Submit your DNA data from a consumer testing company to Othram’s database. It’s only used for law enforcement investigations: https://dnasolves.com/user/registerYou can support gone cold – texas true crime at https://www.patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcastThe Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Dallas Morning News, Private Investigator Findings, and Family Notes were used as sources for this episode.#MissingTrio #FortWorthMissingTrio #JusticeForReneJulieAndRachel #FortWorth #FortWorthTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Missing #MissingPerson #Unsolved

Nineteen eighty was going to be Dorothy Stratten’s year. Playboy’s Hugh Hefner thought it might even be her decade. She was just 20 years old, the girl next door with the shy smile and whispery voice who didn’t know her own beauty. But who was Dorothy really? And how did her rise to fame ultimately lead to her death? This is a six-part series about love, sex and murder in 1970s Hollywood when glitter pants and roller skates were all the rage, and the Playboy mansion hosted the biggest party in town.Listen at wondery.fm/Starlet_GoneCold

On December 23rd, 1974, just a couple days before Christmas, three girls – 17-year-old Rachel Trlica, 14-year-old Renee Wilson, and 9-year-old Julie Moseley – set out for a shopping trip. They had two destinations in mind. One was the local Army Navy surplus/discount store, where Rene would get some items out of layaway, and the other was Seminary South Shopping Center. They no doubt made it to the Army Navy, but they were never confirmed to be seen anywhere else. At a little after 4 PM, Rene’s folks began searching for the girls. Their efforts, however, were futile and Rachel, Rene, and Julie haven’t been seen since. The story is shrouded in mystery and has become woven into the fabric of Fort Worth’s history. Submit your DNA data from a consumer testing company to Othram’s database. It’s only used for law enforcement investigations: https://dnasolves.com/user/registerYou can support gone cold – texas true crime at https://www.patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcastThe Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Dallas Morning News, and Interviews with Family & Friends were used as sources for this episode.This episode's sponsor: the best puzzle game in the world - Best Fiends#MissingTrio #FortWorthMissingTrio #JusticeForReneJulieAndRachel #FortWorth #FortWorthTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Missing #MissingPerson #Unsolved

In April of 1987, authorities in Carter County, Oklahoma found a Watauga, Texas woman on the side of the highway barely clinging to life. She was bound with duct tape, severely beaten, and covered in the blood that had poured from the slit in her throat. The woman was Martha Martinez Maxwell. After doctors at Dallas’s Parkland Hospital saved her life, she dropped charges on the man who’d left her for dead 100 miles from home – her husband, Jeffrey Allan Maxwell. The man, too, manipulated Martha into reconciling with him. Five years later, Martha went missing under suspicious circumstances. And Jeffrey Allan Maxwell’s further crimes, at least some of them, landed him in prison for life 20 years later. The man is suspected, too, in other unsolved Texas disappearances and homicides.If you or anyone you know is experiencing domestic abuse and / or violence, please contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800 799 SAFE or 800 799 7233. Don’t wait until it’s too late.Submit your DNA data from a consumer testing company to Othram’s database. It’s only used for law enforcement investigations: https://dnasolves.com/user/registerYou can support gone cold – texas true crime at https://www.patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcastThe Corsicana Daily Sun, The Dallas Morning News, The Weatherford Democrat, The Fort Worth Star Telegram, D Magazine, womenagainstcrime.com, yourStephenville.com and court documents were used as sources for this episode.#JusticeForMarthaMaxwell #JusticeForAmeliaSmith #JusticeForKrishondaTownsend #FortWorth #FortWorthTX #Watuaga #WataugaTX #MineralWells #MineralWellsTX #Weatherford #WeatherfordTX #TarrantCountyTX #ParkerCountyTX #JackCountyTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Unsolved #Missing #MissingPerson #Murder #Homicide

On April 25th, 1978, 25-year-old Paula Jean Davenport left home to go bowling with her company’s league. She never made it into the Brunswick Bowlerland, however, and never made it back home. Paula’s parents reported her missing to police but was found a couple days later by another jurisdiction, deceased from gunshot wounds. A suspect emerged quickly but Fort Worth Police were ultimately unable to collect the evidence against the individual they needed to get an indictment. Though they were sure they had the right suspect, Paula Davenport’s murder remains unsolved.Submit your DNA data from a consumer testing company to Othram’s database. It’s only used for law enforcement investigations: https://dnasolves.com/user/registerYou can support gone cold – texas true crime at https://www.patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast #JusticeForPaulaJeanDavenport #FortWorth #FortWorthTX #TarrantCountyTX #Texas #TX #TrueCrime #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Unsolved #UnsolvedMurder #ColdCase

In January of 2019, in far south Boerne, Texas, a Bexar County 911 dispatcher received a call. There’d been a suicide, the caller said. Three people – Nichol Olsen and her daughters Alexa and London – were shot to death in a home belonging to Nichol’s boyfriend. The deaths were later ruled a murder-suicide but as friends of Nichol Olsen began speaking out, that ruling became questionable. The Bexar County Sheriff agreed. Fifteen years prior to those deaths, in 2004, probation officer Beth Hicks was killed outside her home just beyond the Boerne city limits as she left for work – struck in the head with a blunt object. Though the probationers she supervised were scrutinized, over 100 of them, Kendall County Sheriff’s Officer could never identify a suspect. Submit your DNA data from a consumer testing company to Othram’s database. It’s only used for law enforcement investigations: https://dnasolves.com/user/registerYou can support gone cold – texas true crime at https://www.patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast#JusticeForBethHicks #NicholAlexaLondon #Boerne #BoerneTX #SanAntonio #SanAntonioTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Unsolved #Mystery #MysteriousDeath #UnsolvedMurder

If someone you love is diagnosed with cancer you want them to get the best treatment from the best doctors. In 2013, patients in Michigan thought Farid Fata was that doctor. Between his prestigious education, years of experience and pleasant bedside manner, Fata was everything you could want in a doctor. But he was not who he appeared to be. From Wondery, this is the story of hundreds of patients in Michigan, a doctor, and a poisonous secret.Laura Beil returns with a second season of the award-winning series “Dr Death.”Listen today at wondery.fm/DrDeathS2_GoneCold

On the morning of April 16th, 2003, United States Air Force Col Philip Michael Shue left his home in Boerne, Texas to head to work at Lackland Air Force base in San Antonio. Col Shue never made it work and instead died in a strange car crash. What Kendall County Sheriff’s Deputies would find at the scene of the wreckage was bizarre. Officially ruled a suicide, a judge would later order that Col Shue’s death be changed to homicide.Submit your DNA data from a consumer testing company to Othram’s database. It’s only used for law enforcement investigations: https://dnasolves.com/user/registerIf you have never tested but want to help, then sign up here to get one of Othram’s kits: https://dnasolves.com/user/preregisterYou can support gone cold – texas true crime at https://www.patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast#WhatHappenedToColPhilipShue #Boerne #BoerneTX #SanAntonio #SanAntonioTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Mystery #MysteriousDeath #UnexplainedDeath

They were many miles apart. The investigations and the immediate suspects, or lack thereof, of each case starkly different. But the disappearances of Amber Crum in 1983, Angelica Gandara in 1985, and Ara “Neecee” Johnson in 1986 became connected many years after the children vanished when a child rapist and murderer implicated himself in each case.Check out the new true crime podcast from the Obsessed Network, Obsessed With Disappeared Submit your DNA data from a consumer testing company to Othram’s database. It’s only used for law enforcement investigations: https://dnasolves.com/user/registerIf you have never tested but want to help, then sign up here to get one of Othram’s kits: https://dnasolves.com/user/preregisterYou can support gone cold – texas true crime at https://www.patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast#WhereIsAmberCrum #WhereIsAraJohnson #WhereIsAngelicaGandara #DallasTX #Dallas #TempleTX #BigSandyTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Unsolved #Mystery #MissingPerson #UnsolvedMysteries

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.Submit your DNA data from a consumer testing company to Othram’s database. It’s only used for law enforcement investigations: https://dnasolves.com/user/registerIf you have never tested but want to help, then sign up here to get one of Othram’s kits: https://dnasolves.com/user/preregisterThis episode’s sponsor is the puzzle game Best Fiends. Download now on the Apple App Store or Google Apps.You can support gone cold – texas true crime at https://www.patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast#WhatHappenedToSharonWest #SharonWest #Beaumont #BeaumontTX #JeffersonCountyTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Unsolved #Mystery #MysteriousDeath #UnexplainedDeath #UnsolvedMysteries

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.Check out Unjust & Unsolved with Maggie Freleng wherever you listen to podcasts.Submit your DNA data from a consumer testing company to Othram’s database. Its only used for law enforcement investigations: https://dnasolves.com/user/registerIf you have never tested but want to help, then sign up here to get one of Othram’s kits: https://dnasolves.com/user/preregisterYou can support gone cold – texas true crime at https://www.patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast#JusticeForMarcellaValenzuela #JusticeForElizabethPrice #JusticeForNaomiMartin #Lubbock #LubbockTX #LubbockCountyTX #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Unsolved #Murder #UnsolvedMurder

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.Submit your DNA data from a consumer testing company to Othram’s database. Its only used for law enforcement investigations: https://dnasolves.com/user/registerIf you have never tested but want to help, then sign up here to get one of Othram’s kits: https://dnasolves.com/user/preregisterSponsor this episode is Acorn.tvYou can support gone cold – texas true crime at https://www.patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast#JusticeForCarla #FortWorth #FortWorthTX #TarrantCountyTX #TX #Texas #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Solved

A summary of the arrest warrant affidavit of Glen Samuel McCurley, charged with the capital murder of Carla Jan Walker in 1974#JusticeForCarla.