Ashley Fuller Reed: Disappearance in Dallas

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Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 25 April 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In January 1990, 19-year-old Ashley Reed was new to Dallas, Texas, having moved there only months before with her mom and young brother. Making new friends wasn’t difficult for Ashley, but it was winter and the process going a little slower than it would in summertime, perhaps. On the 13th, she was thrilled when she called her mother to tell her a man had asked her on a date. The man’s name was Robert, and he was a cowboy type. Robert was tall and handsome to boot. He was also the last person to see Ashley Reed, who disappeared that night, never having called her mother to check in as promised. When the body of a Waco woman was found in a Southeast Dallas County Gravel pit 2 years later, many began theorizing a serial killer was responsible for Ashley’s disappearance.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Ashley Fuller Reed, please call the Texas Missing Persons Clearing House at 800-346-3243.

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The Dallas Morning News, the Texas State Historical Society online, the City of Mesquite online, Texas Monthly’s December 1998 article “The End” by Gary Cartwright, Radford University Department of psychology’s Kenneth Allen McDuff timeline (Rorey Senger, Emily Healy, and Rachel Binsky), and the book Murderers Among Us: Unsolved Homicides, Mysterious Deaths, and Killers at Large by Hugh Aynesworth and Stephen G. Michaud were used as sources for this episode.

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0:00.0	The Gone Cole podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion
0:06.0	is advised.
0:08.9	The township of Mesquite Texas was platted and filed with Dallas County in May of 1873
0:16.2	by an engineer for the Texas and Pacific Railroad.
0:20.5	How the town got its name is something of a mystery.
0:24.1	Some folks say it was named after Mesquite Creek and others say Mesquite Creek was named
0:30.0	after the town, which was likely named for the abundance of Mesquite trees in the area.
0:37.1	The railroad depot in Mesquite proper was much anticipated by the modest community of
0:42.9	four homes, and even before the railway was completed, the first road there, Front Street,
0:49.6	was on its way to meet the needs of any visitors who might decide to explore the small town.
0:56.6	In no time, Front Street had a post office, a blacksmith, and of course the indulgent necessities,
1:03.3	a saloon, and a confectionery.
1:06.7	In 1887, just shy of two-thirds of the 39 residents voted yes to incorporation, and
1:14.0	the following year Mesquite became the second officially-incorporated community in Dallas County.
1:21.9	Mesquite's population grew slowly, barely doubling some decades and not rising at all
1:27.7	in others.
1:29.7	After World War II, for a number of reasons both positive and negative, the abstract
1:35.2	concept of the American dream boomed, and between 1950 and 1960, that dream became synonymous
1:43.7	with suburban life.
1:46.6	That decade Mesquite's rodeo gained the attention of spectators from all over, as the suburban
1:52.8	boom caused a growth of more than 1500%.
1:57.6	Mesquite Texas began its decades-long transformation from an archetypal turn of the 20th century
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