The Slayings of Don & Boston Tate at Big Bend

Summary: In July of 1991 26-year-old Don Tate took his 5-year-old daughter Boston on a camping trip to Big Bend National Park in Brewster County, Texas. The day after they were supposed to have returned but had not, Boston’s mother and Don’s ex-wife asked Rangers at the park to issue a request to locate. Don and Boston never came out of Big Bend, not alive. Later that day, Don’s brutalized body was found. A few days after that, Boston’s burned remains were discovered in her father’s van. Investigators scrounged to find evidence and a motive, while park visitors and villagers across the Rio Grande in Mexico spoke of the involvement of drug smugglers. Later that year, in December, a scandal in neighboring Presidio County involving the son of a prominent rancher and a drug warrior sheriff further fueled the talk of traffickers executing Boston and Don.<br><br>If you have any information about the murders of Boston Michelle and Donald William Tate, please contact the National Park Service Tip Line at 888-653-0009 or submit a tip using their online form: <a href="https://www.nps.gov/orgs/1563/submit-a-tip.htm" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">nps.gov/orgs/1563/submit-a-tip.htm</a><br><br>If you’re in the market for Girl Scout Cookies, you can help Alice reach her goal by using the following link. Alice says, “thanks for supporting the Girl Scouts!” <a href="https://digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/alice241168?fbclid=IwAR0pOJNsnaxTejVAWjcDXe6kGZifKEwA8wYpbCjQf6i059Muo_Oalire0k0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/alice241168?fbclid=IwAR0pOJNsnaxTejVAWjcDXe6kGZifKEwA8wYpbCjQf6i059Muo_Oalire0k0</a><br><br>You can support Gone Cold and listen ad-free at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcast<br><br>Visit Gone Cold – Texas True Crime online at GoneCold.com<br><br>Find us on Facebook, X, Threads, TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram by searching gonecoldpodcast or go to: linknbio.com/gonecoldpodcast<br><br>Sources: The New York Times, Texas Standard, The Big Bend Sentinel, The Odessa American, One Ranger: A Memoir by H. Joaquin Jackson, National Park Service Ranger Morning Reports, and Death in Big Bend by Laurence Parent<br><br>#JusticeForBostonAndDonTate #BigBend #BrewsterCountyTX #PresidioCountyTX #MarfaTX #Murder #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #ColdCase #UnsolvedMurder #Homicide #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast