The Slaying of Lois Lloyd
In April 1985, 27-year-old Lois Ann Lloyd disappeared from Odessa, Texas, just days after telling her father she wanted to leave the city an...
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gone cold podcast - texas true crime explores unsolved homicides and missing persons cases throughout the state of Texas, providing the victims and their families with a voice.
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The Mysterious Death of Helen Holladay
In the late 1970s, the communities around Lake Granbury were still developing, with new roads, scattered homes, trailers, and weekend proper...
Fort Worth Does Identified
During one of the deadliest years in Fort Worth history, two homicide victims were found months apart in very different parts of the city. N...
Lecia McGee Part Two: A History of Violence
Decades after the murder of 17-year-old Lecia McGee went cold, advances in forensic testing gave investigators an opportunity to take anothe...
Lecia McGee Part One: Cold & Deadly Night
In the late 1970s, Fort Worth was a city in transition. Although it had always been sleepy compared to other major Texas cities, downtown ha...
The Disappearance of Gregory Keith Mann Jr.
In May 1997, twenty-year-old Gregory “Keith” Mann Jr. was beginning to build a life for himself in Wichita Falls, Texas. He had recently sta...
The Blount Family Bombing Part Four: The Exoneration
Michael Roy Toney was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1985 bombing murders of Joe Blount, Angela Blount, and Michael Columbus. In t...
The Blount Family Bombing Part Three: The Career Criminal
Nearly twelve years after the Thanksgiving 1985 bombing at Hilltop Mobile Home Park, investigators received a tip that shifted their attenti...
The Blount Family Bombing Part Two: The Teenager and the Businessman
Shortly after the 1985 bombing murders of Joe Blount, Angela Blount, and Michael Columbus, early suspicion fell on people connected to Hillt...
The Blount Family Bombing Part One: Joe, Angela, and Michael
On Thanksgiving night in 1985, Joe and Susan Blount were spending the holiday with their children, teenagers Angela and Robert, at their hom...
The Bathroom Slayings Epilogue: The Murder of Mickey Niles
In June 1974, seven-year-old Michael “Mickey” David Niles was asleep in his family’s Abilene home when an intruder entered. Mickey was stabb...
The Bathroom Slayings Part Three: Juanita Carroll
On April 24, 1977, 59-year-old Juanita Carroll was found dead inside the bathroom of her home on Ballinger Street in Abilene, Texas. Natural...
The Bathroom Slayings Part Two: Geneva Jackson
Six years after the unsolved murder of Sharon Kay Watts, Abilene was shaken by another brutal killing with unsettling similarities. Geneva L...
The Bathroom Slayings Part One: Sharon Kay Watts
In the Summer of 1967, Abilene, Texas, was a growing West Central Texas city where most residents believed violent crime happened somewhere...
The Disappearance of Roxanne Paltauf Part Two
Just days after Roxanne Paltauf vanished from a Budget Inn near Interstate 35 and Rundberg Lane in Austin, her missing ID surfaced in the wa...
The Disappearance of Roxanne Paltauf Part One
In July 2006, eighteen-year-old Roxanne Paltauf vanished from a Budget Inn near Interstate 35 and Rundberg Lane in Austin, Texas. Just hours...
The Disappearance of Mike Jefferson Adams
In June of 1987, eighteen-year-old Michael Jefferson "Mike" Adams seemed to have everything going for him. A recent early graduate of Cooper...
The Dark History of Wharton County Part Two
In Part Two of our series on the dark history of Wharton County, we examine three more haunting cases that continue to leave families search...
The Dark History of Wharton County Part One
For more than 150 years, Wharton County, Texas, has been shaped by both prosperity and violence. In the first installment of this special se...
The Disappearance of Brandi Wells Part Two
Nearly twenty years after Brandi Wells disappeared, the questions surrounding her case remain as haunting as ever. In part two, we examine t...