Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

…1 campfire……1 dark forest……31 bone-chilling stories……Will YOU survive the night?This Halloween season, enter the woods for a unique and truly epic podcast experience! Around the campfire Shane Waters will introduce 31 crime podcast hosts, including gone cold. Each host brings a new, nerve-wracking true story to the circle. It’s an extra special, two part, five-hour, Halloween event, but before hitting play you might want to ask yourself…can you really handle this much murder and mayhem?So, pull up to the fire and brace yourself for ‘A Nightmare Before Halloween’…but be warned……bad things happen in these woods….Podcasts are listed here in order of appearance:In this Part 1 Episode:- Foul Play: Crime Series [https://link.chtbl.com/foulplay]- Murder She Told [https://tinyurl.com/55473exk]- Crime Salad [https://tinyurl.com/4pbtdtpc]- Crimelines [https://linktr.ee/crimelines]- Frightful [https://link.chtbl.com/frightful]- Reverie True Crime [https://linktr.ee/paigeelmore]- Rotten to the Core [https://link.chtbl.com/Rotten]- The Trail Went Cold [https://tinyurl.com/2zydj3y]- Once Upon A Crime [https://www.truecrimepodcast.com]- Criminology [https://tinyurl.com/yvuu9u8d]- The Peripheral & Generation Why [https://link.chtbl.com/ThePeripheral]- Live, Laugh, Larceny [https://linktr.ee/Live.Laugh.Larceny.Podcast]- The Hidden Staircase [https://link.chtbl.com/TheHiddenStaircase]- True Crime Cases with Lanie & It's Haunted...What Now? [https://linktr.ee/LanieHobbs]- Obscura: A True Crime Podcast & Disaster [https://link.chtbl.com/obscura]In the next Part 2 Episode:- True Crime Island [https://tinyurl.com/y6kk2npj]- Based on a True Story [https://tinyurl.com/37axzn5z]- The Asian Madness Podcast [https://tinyurl.com/yckkxbjn]- Sistas Who Kill [https://linktr.ee/Sistas.Who.Kill.Podcast]- Hometown History [https://link.chtbl.com/hometownhistory]- Coffee and Cases [https://linktr.ee/coffeeandcases]- Military Murder [https://tinyurl.com/yc5fxjyh]- Dystopian Simulation Radio [https://tinyurl.com/khpw786w]- Cults, Crimes & Cabernet [https://linktr.ee/cultscrimesandcabernet]

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 Generation Why Podcast released its first episode in 2012 and pioneered the true crime genre in the podcasting world. Two friends, Aaron & Justin, break down theories and give their opinions on unsolved murders, controversies, mysteries and conspiracies. One of the longest running true crime podcasts out there, Generation Why has a little something for every true crime listener. Follow The Generation Why Podcast on Amazon Music, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Or you can listen ad-free by joining Wondery Plus in the Wondery app.Listen here: http://wondery.fm/GC_GenWhy

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 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

As Gregg Joplin’s testimony about what happened on Monday, February 23rd, 1976 continued, the of murder case of the Joplin Family and Terry Trice seemed to grow even more complicated. The Grand Jury’s investigative efforts were certainly hindered, at the very least, by Gregg’s claimed lack of memory. Oddly, he remembered certain details quite well, but others – important details – not at all. Was Gregg’s lapse in memory a product of trauma or evasion? The Grand Jurors seemed to believe the latter.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 #BlueMound #BlueMoundTX #FortWorth #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Unsolved #FamilyAnnihilator

The Fort Worth Star-Telegram shocked the locals when on March 3rd, 1976, they ran an article in their evening edition announcing that a grand jury investigation into the Joplin Family and Terry Trice murders in Blue Mound. It came out of nowhere. But Tarrant County Sheriff Lon Evans had asked for it the previous week, and subpoenas had gone out since. Because of an unwarranted arrest, a portion of the grand jury witness testimony leaked, and several aspects of it provide, perhaps, reason to believe the case was never what it seemed. Part 4 of ?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, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, D Magazine’s Articles “Reopening the Blue Mound Massacre” by Tom Stephenson, and “Bad Day at Blue Mound” by Jim Atkinson were used as sources for this episode#JusticeForTheJoplinFamily #BlueMound #BlueMoundTX #FortWorth #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Unsolved #FamilyAnnihilator

After Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper reporters uncovered relatively solid evidence that 17-year-old Terry Trice did not kill Wayne, Fae, Brian, and Kevin Joplin, Tarrant County Sheriff Lon Evans became heavily involved in the investigation. In fact, it seemed as though he didn’t want anyone making any decisions or talking to any reports other than himself and his Chief Deputy Earl Brown. Damage control began. As the Sheriff and his right hand man sorted through mistakes made by both the Blue Mound Police Chief and his own deputies, Lon Evans became frustrated at the lack of cooperation from the sole surviving Joplin family member. Part 3 of ?If you have any information about the 1976 Joplin Family murders, please contact the Blue Mound Police at (817)232-0665To buy tickets for a live podcast at the Winehaus in Fort Worth, featuring gone cold, True Crime Cases With Lanie, True Consequences, and Cults, Crimes, and Cabernet, go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/true-crime-live-tickets-328948101627Find gone cold – texas true crime on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastThe Fort Worth Star-Telegram, D Magazine’s Article “Reopening the Blue Mound Massacre,” and Court Documents were used as sources for this episode#JusticeForTheJoplinFamily #JusticeForTerryTrice #BlueMound #BlueMoundTX #FortWorth #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Unsolved #FamilyAnnihilator

After the murders of Wayne, Fae, Brian, and Kevin Joplin on February 23rd, 1976, both Blue Mound Police Chief Gary Erwin and Tarrant County Deputies who assisted at the scene thought the case was open and shut: a family friend, 17 year old Terry Trice, killed them all and was trying to make out with two vintage firearms when he was surprised, shot, and killed by Gregg Joplin after he came home. Within two days, however, as reporters for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and D Magazine uncovered facts about Terry Trice that authorities had not, it seemed almost certain he hadn’t committed any crime at all. Part 2 of ?If you have any information about the 1976 Joplin Family murders, please contact the Blue Mound Police at (817)232-0665This episode deals with suicide. If you are experiencing emotional distress and / or contemplating suicide, please call the national suicide prevention helpline by dialing 988. Someone is available to speak with you there 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.To bid on a giant bundle of merch from more than 25 podcasts, the proceeds of which will go directly to the Leon Laureles go fund me, check out the Fall Line Podcast's Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/falllinepodcast/ on September 14-16.To buy tickets for a live podcast at the Winehaus in Fort Worth, featuring gone cold, True Crime Cases With Lanie, True Consequences, and Cults, Crimes, and Cabernet, go to: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/true-crime-live-tickets-328948101627Find gone cold – texas true crime on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastThe Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Dallas Morning News, D Magazine’s Article “Reopening the Blue Mound Massacre,” and Court Documents were used as sources for this episode#JusticeForTheJoplinFamily #BlueMound #BlueMoundTX #FortWorth #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Unsolved #FamilyAnnihilator

Blue Mound, Texas in 1976 was a quaint and quiet working class family town, it’s low violent crime rate in stark contrast to the city directly to the south, Fort Worth. In February of 1976, however, Blue Mound forever changed when five people were slaughtered in a suburban home there. The sole surviving member of the Joplin Family, 20-year-old Gregg, told police that after visiting a relative, he came home to find his family slain, and shot and killed the alleged intruder. On the surface, that story seemed to work. But as the investigation progressed, witnesses and evidence painted a much different story. Part 1 of ?If you have any information about the 1976 Joplin Family murders, please contact the Blue Mound Police at (817)232-0665Please 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 Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Dallas Morning News, D Magazine’s Article “Reopening the Blue Mound Massacre,” HometownByHandlebar.com, TexasAlmanac.com, TshaOnline.org, and Court Documents were used as sources for this episode #JusticeForTheJoplinFamily #BlueMound #BlueMoundTX #FortWorth #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Unsolved #FamilyAnnihilator

Part 2 of 2. After moving back to her hometown of Paris, Texas at age 80, Mary Searight quickly became a beloved resident. Mary shot straight, had seemingly endless tales to tell, and always took care of the places she lived through philanthropic gestures. But 8 years after coming back home, when she was 87 years old, someone brutally raped and beat Mary Searight to death in her home. The investigation, though diligently worked, was getting nowhere. When elderly couple Bessie and Grady Alexander were slain just two weeks after Mary’s murder, the Paris Police theorized a possible connection. But when evidence revealed the killer of the Alexander’s through DNA, testing on Mary Searight’s case stalled.If you have any information about the 1996 murder of Mary Moore Searight, please call the Paris, Texas Police Department at (903)784-6688Please 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/gonecoldpodcastCommunityImpact.com, The Paris News, The Austin American-Statesman, The Houston Post, The Fort Worth Record, LamarCounty.org, MooreFirm.com, Moore & Searight Family Records, and Court Appeal Documents were used as sources for this episode#JusticeForMaryMooreSearight #Paris #ParisTX #Austin #AustinTX #Texas #TX #Texas #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Unsolved

Mary Searight came from a family of great means and influence in Texas law and state government. Her husband, too, came from a prominent Austin, Texas cattle ranching family. After he died, Mary spent 30 more years on their Austin ranch before realizing she could no longer handle the responsibility of raising cattle and keeping up with the land. Though moving back to her hometown of Paris, Texas seemed ideal, Mary Searight’s choice to do so turned deadly.Part 1 of 2 If you have any information about the 1996 murder of Mary Moore Searight, please call the Paris, Texas Police Department at (903)784-6688 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/gonecoldpodcastCommunityImpact.com, The Paris News, The Austin American-Statesman, The Houston Post, The Fort Worth Record, LamarCounty.org, MooreFirm.com, and Moore & Searight Family Records were used as sources for this episode #JusticeForMaryMooreSearight #Paris #ParisTX #Austin #AustinTX #Texas #TX #Texas #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Unsolved

On November 11th, 1982, 20-year-old Kathy Mae Goad took the day off work to run some errands in the Fort Worth, Texas suburb of Hurst. She never made it back to the east Fort Worth home she shared with her husband, who reported her missing that evening. The Fort Worth Police believed that Kathy had simply left her husband and more or less refused to investigate the case. But authorities in her Kentucky hometown felt very differently. They sent one of their best detectives to Texas to investigate. In the first two days of Commonwealth of Kentucky Attorney’s Detective Glen Wood’s visit, he uncovered information that strongly pointed to a suspect in Kathy Goad’s disappearance. Twelve years after Kathy went missing, a mysterious letter sent to FWPD attempted to connect her case with one of the city’s most talked about mysteries – the Fort Worth Missing Trio. Still, the 20-year-old has never been found and no one has ever been held accountable for whatever happened to her. If you have any information on the disappearance of Kathy Mae Brownfield Goad, please contact the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Missing Person’s Clearinghouse at (512)424 5074 or (800)346-3243If you’d like to learn more about the disappearances of Rachel Trlica, Renee Wilson, and Julie Moseley, the Fort Worth Missing Trio, you can listen to gone cold’s 7 part series from December 2020 – January 2021Support independent music and our friend Kash Mojo by purchasing his debut single “Galveston Gone” on Spotify, YouTube, DistroKid, or Apple MusicPlease donate to help get #JusticeForLeonLaureles at gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorial/If you’d like to donate to law enforcement investigations that need funding or upload your DNA into a database used only for law enforcement investigations, go to DNAsolves.com/The Fort Worth Police Department still has nearly 1,000 unsolved cases dating back to 1959. You can help our diligent Cold Case Detectives by donating to the Fort Worth Cold Case Support Group at fwpdcoldcasesupport.org/Find gone cold – texas true crime on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastThe Park City Daily News, The Louisville Courier Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and Police Reports were used as sources for this episode #JusticeForKathyGoad #MissingTrio #FortWorthMissingTrio #JusticeForReneeJulieAndRachel #FortWorth #FortWorthTX #Texas #TX #BowlingGreenKY #Kentucky #KY #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Missing #MissingPerson #Unsolved

This episode, we discuss developments in a few more Texas cases, including the 1992 murder of Shenda Denise Hayes, the identification of the remains of 16-year-old Sylvia Nicole Smith, the apprehension of a 75-year-old serial killer in Fort Worth, the murders of Heather Willms and Esmeralda Herrera in 2005 and 2011 respectively, and the 2002 robbery / murder of Subir Chatterjee. Also, a little about the newly passed law known as Homicide Victims’ Families’ Rights Act of 2021 at the top.If you have any information about the murder of Sylvia Nicole Smith, please contact the Texas Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477)Check out the great podcast Remnant Stew here: remnantstew.com/Please donate to help get #JusticeForLeonLaureles at gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorial/If you’d like to donate to law enforcement investigations that need funding or upload your DNA into a database used only for law enforcement investigations, go to DNAsolves.com/The Fort Worth Police Department still has nearly 1,000 unsolved cases dating back to 1959. You can help our diligent Cold Case Detectives by donating to the Fort Worth Cold Case Support Group at fwpdcoldcasesupport.org/Find gone cold – texas true crime on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastSources for this episode:Subir Chatterjee:https://www.lakeconroe.com/detective-seals-dna-conviction-in-montgomery-county-cold-case-murder/https://www.yourconroenews.com/neighborhood/moco/news/article/DNA-testing-leads-to-20-year-old-cold-case-murder-17274640.phphttps://www.chron.com/neighborhood/article/Murder-victim-handled-millions-of-dollars-9921180.phpSylvia Nicole Smith: https://www.dps.texas.gov/coldCase/Home/Details/233https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/texas/dps-missing-teen-midland/285-c44b8f9b-688f-4350-a0fb-95bb261f69d3https://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/national/article262941423.htmlHeather Willms & Esmeralda Herrera:https://lawandcrime.com/tag/jose-baldomero-flores-iii/https://www.dps.texas.gov/news/convicted-killer-texas-ranger-cold-case-gets-two-life-sentenceshttps://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-man-gets-three-life-terms-for-brutal-17328250.phphttps://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/unsolved-for-11-years-leon-valley-police-make-arrest-in-young-womans-brutal-murder

This episode, we discuss developments in several Texas cases, including the 1989 murder of Mary Hague Kelly, the identification of the remains of Pamela Darlene Young, the 2002 slaying of Dannarriah Finley, the murders of Laura Smither, Jessica Cain, and Kelli Cox in 1997, the 1979 murder of Lesia Michelle Jackson, the 2006 Pizza Hut Murders of Patricia Ann Oferosky and Stephen Dale Mitchelltree, and the slayings of Janine Johnson and Stephen Taylor in 2009.Should you have information about Pamela Darlene Young’s death, please contact the Gregg County Sheriff's Office at 903-236-8400.If you have any information about the 2002 murder of Dannarriah Finley in Orange, Texas, please contact the Texas Crime Stoppers hotline at 800-252-TIPS (8477). All tips to Texas Crime Stoppers are anonymous. Tipsters will be given a tip number for reward eligibility, and do not have to provide a name.If you have any information about the murders of Janine Johnson and Stephen Taylor, please contact Detective Richardson at (469)651-9282.Please donate to help get #JusticeForLeonLaureles at gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorialIf you’d like to donate to law enforcement investigations that need funding or upload your DNA into a database used only for law enforcement investigations, go to DNAsolves.comThe Fort Worth Police Department still has nearly 1,000 unsolved cases dating back to 1959. You can help our diligent Cold Case Detectives by donating to the Fort Worth Cold Case Support Group at fwpdcoldcasesupport.orgTo learn more about the work the DNA Doe Project is doing, go to dnadoeproject.org/Find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcast#Texas #TX #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast #ColdCase #UnsolvedMysteries #UnsolvedMurder #Murder #JaneDoe