Bridgette Gearen Part 1: Killing on Crystal Beach

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 13 May 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In July of 2007, 28-year-old Bridgette Gearen took her little girl to Crystal Beach, located on the Bolivar Peninsula on the Texas coast. A few couples from the law firm where she worked had rented a beach house for the weekend, and as a hard-working mother, Bridgette was looking forward to the down time. At about the weekend’s halfway point, the young mother left the house alone to wait outside for some of the others with whom she was going to take a midnight drive on the beach. When the others came down, however, Bridgette Gearen was nowhere to be found. The following day, she was found viciously murdered near the water’s edge. With few clues found at the scene, Galveston County Sheriff’s Office investigators scrambled to come up with leads to follow.

If you have any information about the 2007 murder of Bridgette Lynn Gearen, please contact the Galveston County Sheriff’s Office at (409)766-2300 or (866)248-8477.

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Sources: The Galveston Daily News, The Orange Leader, The Houston Chronicle, and KFDM Fox 4 Beaumont.

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0:00.0	The Gone Cold Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter.
0:05.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:09.0	Located 71 miles southeast of Houston, Texas, the semi-secluded Bolivar Peninsula is one of the
0:16.6	state's most popular vacation destinations.
0:21.2	Bolivar's coast stretches about 27 miles across the Gulf of Mexico and is home to what
0:27.1	some say are the most beautiful beaches in Texas.
0:31.8	The approximately 2,400 residents that lived in the southeastern most portion of Galveston
0:37.5	County in 2007, like they are today, were mostly split up between five communities, Kaplan, Port Boulevard, Gilchrist, High Island,
0:48.9	and Crystal Beach.
0:50.7	High Island, perhaps, has the richest history of them all.
0:55.0	It's where one of the last of Jean Lafite's freebooters turned Texas Revolutionary,
1:00.8	Charles Kronia, was buried in 1893.
1:05.0	It's also the area that reaped the most benefits of the Peninsula's major oil boom
1:10.7	in the 1930s and 1940s.
1:14.0	Because many houses on the Bolivar Peninsula are vacation homes these days,
1:19.0	there are significantly more dwellings than dwellers.
1:24.0	The folks who live there are largely retirees, something that wildly skews median household
1:30.0	income numbers, but that also helped define the area as a place where life moves at a slower
1:36.0	speed.
1:37.8	Most residents who are still working commute to the nearby cities of Port Arthur, Galveston, and Beaumont, which certainly adds to
1:46.1	Bolivars laid back way of living.
1:49.8	The ranching and agriculture once fueled the local economy, earning the peninsula, the nickname
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