The Mysterious Kidnapping of Catherine Thom
In the Fall of 1988, everything was headed in the right direction for 31-year-old Cathy Thom. After a childhood and then young adulthood that kept her on the move constantly, she was finally settling into a new job that promised to keep her home in Arlington, Texas with her favorite person in the world – her 10-year-old son, Danny. But in mid-November that year, Cathy vanished without a trace. For a month, her family worried the worst had befallen her, but miraculously, Cathy reappeared. The Arlington Police, however, had a difficult time getting any information from the traumatized woman, giving the folks Cathy said kidnapped and held her in captivity the upper hand.If you have any information about the kidnapping and captivity of Catherine Ann Thom, please call the Arlington Police at 817-274-4444.You can support gone cold – texas true crime at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter or X or whatever, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, and Instagram by searching @gonecoldpodcastThe Fort Worth Star-Telegram and The Dallas Morning News were used as sources for this episode #WhoKidnappedCathyThom #Arlington #ArlingtonTX #TarrantCountyTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #Unsolved #ColdCase #MissingPerson #Disappearance #Vanished #Abduction #Kidnapping #UnsolvedMysteriesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gone-cold-texas-true-crime--3203003/support.
13 Nov 202332min
Haunted: The Murder of Sylvia Salinas
On Halloween, 1989, 30-year-old Sylvia Salinas, owner of Salinas Food Store in Galveston, Texas, stayed behind to stock the shelves while her folks returned home for lunch. At 1:23 PM, police were informed by the company who handles the alarm service for the small grocery, that the silent alarm had been tripped. When a patrolman arrived at the scene, he found Sylvia in a pool of blood, stabbed through the heart with a large knife. Virtually no leads could be produced, and the case went cold almost immediately. Decades later, as forensic DNA science advanced to a point that gave the family hope, a natural disaster dashed those hopes - or did it? Special thanks to Christine and Shericka for their contributions to this episode.If you have any information about the murder of Sylvia Salinas, please contact Crime Stoppers of Galveston at (409) 763-8477.You can support gone cold and listen ad-free at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcast#JusticeForSylviaSalinas #Galveston #GalvestonTX #GalvestonCounty #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #ColdCase #Unsolved #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #Homicide #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #PodcastBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gone-cold-texas-true-crime--3203003/support.
31 Okt 202350min
The Murder of Terressa Lynn Vanegas
On Halloween Eve 2006, 16-year-old Terressa Lynn Vanegas bounced around between friend’s houses. Though she was supposed to spend the night with one of them, those plans fell through unbeknownst to her family. Terressa had other plans, anyway, and the teenager was seen that night by several folks who knew her in her hometown of Dickinson, Texas. But the following day when she didn’t come home from school, Terressa’s family knew something was wrong. Two days later, her body was found in a shallow ditch near her school, Dickinson High. Though there were plenty of witnesses to report last known movements, one person she was seen talking to that night was, apparently, unknown to all of them.If you have any information about the murder of Terressa Lynn Vanegas, please call the Dickinson Police Department at 281-337-4700 or Galveston County Crime Stoppers at 281-763-8477You can support gone cold – texas true crime at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter or X or whatever, Threads, and Instagram by searching @gonecoldpodcastFind us on TikTok and YouTube, where we’ve finally released content and plan to continue producing more. Search @gonecoldpodcast at bothDavid Lohr’s reporting at CrimeLibrary.org, abc13.com, The Galveston Daily News, and The Houston Chronicle were used as sources for this episode. #JusticeForTerressaVanegas #DickinsonTX #Houston #Galveston #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #ColdCase #Unsolved #Murder #UnsolvedMurder #UnsolvedMysteriesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gone-cold-texas-true-crime--3203003/support.
30 Okt 202328min
The Broad Daylight Murder of Valerie McPherson
In 2013, 24-year-old Lauren Bump was brutally killed while jogging through San Antonio’s O.P. Schnabel Park, on the city’s northwest side, generally a safe, middle-class area and during the day. The stabbing murder was completely random; it was the act of a sociopath who simply wanted to cause pain and kill. Luckily, he was apprehended and eventually convicted of Lauren’s murder. The terrible crime was markedly similar to one that occurred 25 years before, in 1991. In August of that year, 32-year-old Valerie McPherson was jogging near her Olmos Park, Texas home in the San Antonio area during broad daylight, when she was savagely attacked by someone she didn’t know – stabbed repeatedly as she shielded her 19-month-old girl in the child’s running stroller. Val was able to describe her attacker but succumbed to her wounds four hours later at an area hospital. While it was impossible that the same man who killed Lauren Bump in 2013 was also responsible for Val McPherson’s murder, since he would have only been 4 years old in 1991, could the cases have had the same motive? Or, rather, the lack of motive?If you have any information about the murder of Valerie Lorane McPherson, please contact the Texas Rangers at (800) 346-3243 or remain anonymous and eligible for a reward of up to $3000 by calling Texas Crime Stoppers at (800)252-8477You can support gone cold – texas true crime at https://www.patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter or X or whatever, Threads, and Instagram by searching @gonecoldpodcastFind us on TikTok and YouTube, where we’ve finally released content and plan to continue producing more. Search @gonecoldpodcast at bothThe San Antonio News-Express and San Antonio Channel 4 News were used as sources for this episode #JusticeForValerieMcPherson #SanAntonio #SanAntonioTX #BexarCountyTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #Unsolved #UnsolvedMurder #ColdCase #UnsolvedMysteriesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gone-cold-texas-true-crime--3203003/support.
16 Okt 202333min
The Abduction & Murder of Raul Arevalo
On February 23rd, 1953, two men asked workers at the Lyles Buick Company Service Station in Sonora for help; they’d ran out of gas and were stranded just east of town, the strangers said. 17-year-old Raul Arevalo filled up a gas can, grabbed the keys to the company pickup, and drove the men back to their vehicle. But he never returned. For six days, Raul’s family searched for him, as did Texas Highway Patrol and the Sutton County Sheriff’s Office. On March 1st, 1953, six days after he disappeared, a young married couple found the body of Raul Arevalo. He’d been tortured and shot to death. The men who Raul sought to help have never been identified. At least, not officially.If you have any information about the murder of Raul Arevalo, please contact the Texas Rangers at (800) 346-3243, submit an electronic tip by visiting Raul’s page at dps.texas.gov/coldCase/Home/Details/261 and clicking on the “submit a tip online” link at the bottom of the page or remain anonymous and eligible for a reward of up to $3000 by calling Texas Crime Stoppers at (800)252-8477You can support gone cold – texas true crime at https://www.patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter or X or whatever, Threads, and Instagram by searching @gonecoldpodcastFind us on TikTok and YouTube, where we’ve finally released content and plan to continue producing more. Search @gonecoldpodcast at bothThe Devil’s River News, The San Angelo Standard-Times, The Del Rio News Herald, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and NBC Houston were used as sources for this episode#JusticeForRaulArevalo #Sonora #SonoraTX #SuttonCountyTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #Unsolved #UnsolvedMurder #ColdCase #MissingPerson #Disappearance #Vanished #UnsolvedMysteriesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gone-cold-texas-true-crime--3203003/support.
9 Okt 202337min
Massacre at Loma Alta: The Arellano Family Murders
On April 16th, 1968, in the Arellano’s packed in the family’s Buick and headed away from their Villa de Fuente, Mexico home to San Angelo, Texas to visit an expecting family member. The car was packed tight with a mother, a father, a young child, a toddler, a sister, and a baby. Though the trip wasn’t anything new to the family, they visited Texas and the US often, an unfortunate and horrific series of events took place. Vehicle issues led the Arellano Family directly into the path of a psychopathic devil who would prove to be no less than the annihilator of nearly the entire family. Remastered with 25+ minutes of updated material.If you have any information on the 1968 murders of the Arellano Family, please contact the Edwards County Sheriff’s Office at (830) 683-4104Please donate to help get #JusticeForLeonLaureles at gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorialYou can support gone cold and listen ad-free at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, and Twitter or X or whatever by using @gonecoldpodcastFind us on YouTube, where we are releasing content finally, at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcastThe Los Angeles Times, The Del Rio News-Herald, The San Antonio Express, The Austin Statesman, and the San Angelo Standard Times were used as sources for this episode.#Unsolved #JusticeForTheArellanoFamily #Arellano #Texas #LomaAlta #Sonora #DelRio #SanAngelo #SanAntonio #TexasTrueCrime#GoneCold #GoneColdPodcast #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast #ColdCase #UnsolvedMysteries #MurderBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gone-cold-texas-true-crime--3203003/support.
2 Okt 202350min
Debra Mackey Part 2: The Criminal Pathologist
Part 2 of 2. Years after pathologist Dr. Ralph Erdmann was discredited – found to have falsified countless autopsies all over West Texas and the Panhandle, Plainview Jane Doe was buried after her remains had been shuffled around for 11 years. Her grave was marked, simply, “Jane Doe 1982.” When she was exhumed in 2015, however, the mystery began unraveling. And the truth was nothing like anyone thought. The unidentified murder victim, originally determined to have been white by Dr. Erdmann was actually black. It wasn’t the only misstep that made prior identification virtually impossible. The skull buried with the body did not belong to it. Eventually, the body was identified as belonging to 20-year-old Debra Mackey of Lubbock. Who killed her, however, remains unknown.If you have any information on the murder of Debra Denise Mackey, please contact the Lubbock Police Department Crime Line at (806)741-1000 or reach out to Metropolitan Special Crimes Unit Detective Madrigal at (806)775-3072You can support gone cold – texas true crime at https://www.patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter or X or whatever, Threads, and Instagram by searching @gonecoldpodcastFind us on TikTok and YouTube, where we’ve finally released content and plan to continue producing more. Search @gonecoldpodcast at bothThe Lubbock Evening Journal, The Plainview Herald, The Arizona Daily Star, The Arizona Republic, The Austin American Statesman, The El Paso Times, The Kilgore News Herald, The Tyler Courier – Times, The Odessa American, DNADoeProject.org, and Henry Lee Lucas Police Documents were used as sources for this episode #JusticeForDebraMackey #PlainviewJaneDoe #JaneDoe #Lubbock #LubbockTX #Plainview #PlainviewTX #HaleCountyTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #Unsolved #UnsolvedMurder #ColdCase #MissingPerson #Disappearance #Vanished #UnsolvedMysteriesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gone-cold-texas-true-crime--3203003/support.
24 Sep 202328min
Debra Mackey Part 1: Plainview Jane Doe
When the partially 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. When Henry Lee Lucas was arrested the following year, he confessed to decapitating the victim, among other vile acts, but charges were dropped against him in return for a guilty plea to another crime in the jurisdiction of the Hale County District Attorney’s Office. Very few possibilities arose as to the identity of Plainview’s Jane Doe, but given mistakes made by the pathologist in charge of the body, at least one very good possibility was never even considered: missing 20-year-old Debra Mackey of Lubbock, who was last seen a little more than a month before. If you have any information about the murder of Debra Denise Mackey, please contact the Lubbock Police Department Crime Line at (806)741-1000 or reach out to Metropolitan Special Crimes Unit Detective Madrigal at (806)775-3072You can support gone cold – texas true crime at https://www.patreon.com/gonecoldpodcastFind us on Facebook, Twitter or X or whatever, Threads, and Instagram by searching @gonecoldpodcastFind us on TikTok and YouTube, where we’ve finally released content and plan to continue producing more. Search @gonecoldpodcast at bothThe Lubbock Evening Journal, The Plainview Herald, The Arizona Daily Star, The Arizona Republic, The Austin American Statesman, The El Paso Times, The Kilgore News Herald, The Tyler Courier – Times, The Odessa American, OurBlackGirls.com, DNADoeProject.org, and Henry Lee Lucas Police Documents were used as sources for this episode #JusticeForDebraMackey #PlainviewJaneDoe #JaneDoe #Lubbock #LubbockTX #Plainview #PlainviewTX #HaleCountyTX #Texas #TX #TexasTrueCrime #TrueCrime #Unsolved #UnsolvedMurder #ColdCase #MissingPerson #Disappearance #Vanished #UnsolvedMysteriesBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gone-cold-texas-true-crime--3203003/support.
18 Sep 202330min
