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The February 1967 rape and murder of 38-year-old Mildred May devastated her family and stumped the Fort Worth police.

Though there were apparent witnesses and evidence found in the

form of the woman's discarded purse contents some distance from where her body was found,

detectives couldn't come up with a viable suspect. The crime got plenty of attention in the

newspapers and on local television news for weeks,

but at about the same time the stories dwindled, the case went cold.

For years, there was seldom mention of Mildred's murder in the media,

and her case file collected dust in a filing cabinet at the police station.

Even when another abduction in slang took place six years later, collected dust in a filing cabinet at the police station.

Even when another abduction in slang took place six years later,

and in the same month that Mildred was violently taken,

not a mention of her case can be found.

This victim, the second in the series of crimes that would eventually be dubbed the February slings was 21-year-old Becky Martin.

Music I said, well, I'm going to look it up on the internet. And when I looked, I was just amazed that her case didn't show up on Fort Worth

whole case. It didn't show up at all. It was just like it didn't show up on Fort Worth whole case.

It didn't show up at all.

It was just like it didn't exist. You know, Born Becky Berlin Whitaker on August 12, 1951 in Fort Worth, Becky was one of four children in her

household growing up. She attended Trimble High School, also in Fort Worth. A straight-a-student,

Becky was intelligent and described as happy and friendly.

She never met a stranger. Becky was still in high school and working as a waitress on nights and

weekends when she met David Martin, who worked for Lone Star Gas Company at the time.

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