Case Updates, Summer 2022 Part 2
Gone Cold - Texas True Crime
Vincent Strange
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
If you have any information about the murder of Sylvia Nicole Smith, please contact the Texas Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477)
Check out the great podcast Remnant Stew here: remnantstew.com/
Please donate to help get #JusticeForLeonLaureles at gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorial/
If you’d like to donate to law enforcement investigations that need funding or upload your DNA into a database used only for law enforcement investigations, go to DNAsolves.com/
The Fort Worth Police Department still has nearly 1,000 unsolved cases dating back to 1959. You can help our diligent Cold Case Detectives by donating to the Fort Worth Cold Case Support Group at fwpdcoldcasesupport.org/
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Sources for this episode:
Subir Chatterjee:
https://www.lakeconroe.com/detective-seals-dna-conviction-in-montgomery-county-cold-case-murder/
https://www.yourconroenews.com/neighborhood/moco/news/article/DNA-testing-leads-to-20-year-old-cold-case-murder-17274640.php
https://www.chron.com/neighborhood/article/Murder-victim-handled-millions-of-dollars-9921180.php
Sylvia Nicole Smith:
https://www.dps.texas.gov/coldCase/Home/Details/233
https://www.khou.com/article/news/local/texas/dps-missing-teen-midland/285-c44b8f9b-688f-4350-a0fb-95bb261f69d3
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/nation-world/national/article262941423.html
Heather Willms & Esmeralda Herrera:
https://lawandcrime.com/tag/jose-baldomero-flores-iii/
https://www.dps.texas.gov/news/convicted-killer-texas-ranger-cold-case-gets-two-life-sentences
https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/San-Antonio-man-gets-three-life-terms-for-brutal-17328250.php
https://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/unsolved-for-11-years-leon-valley-police-make-arrest-in-young-womans-brutal-murder
https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Capital-murder-indictments-returned-in-two-San-10949310.php
Sherri Herrera & Shenda Denise Hayes
https://centralrecorder.com/accused-killer-charged-with-2nd-cold-case-murder-in-slaying-of-california-mother-of-4-prosecutors-say/
https://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/douglas-thomas-riverside-titus-murder-charge-17238286.php
https://www.kltv.com/2022/08/05/man-indicted-charges-murdering-sex-workers-texas-california-dating-back-30-years/
https://wacotrib.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/texas-rangers-dna-links-retired-mclennan-county-trucker-to-killings-from-1990s/article_1844b63e-ec2e-11ec-8228-575b2b2a7d6c.html
Billy Ray Richardson:
https://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/crime/article263508473.html
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-07-14/texas-man-arrested-los-angeles-area-cold-case-killings-dating-to-1980
https://da.lacounty.gov/media/news/texas-man-charged-four-decades-old-murders
https://www.lapdonline.org/newsroom/cold-case-arrest-of-billy-ray-richardson-in-fort-worth-texas-nr22201ah/
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| 0:00.0 | Cold Missing persons and doe cases all over the country need your help. |
| 0:08.4 | Here in our own backyard, the Fort Worth Police Cold Case Unit is working daily and diligently |
| 0:14.4 | in an attempt to solve the city's nearly 1,000 cold cases. |
| 0:19.8 | If you'd like to help the cause, go to FWPDColdCaseSupport.org. |
| 0:26.9 | Also, at dnasolves.com, you'll find several ways you can get involved and support police |
| 0:33.2 | investigations that need funding. |
| 0:36.5 | DNA Solves is authorment-incorporated folks, and they're helping jurisdictions all over |
| 0:41.9 | solve their cold and unidentified persons' caseload. |
| 0:46.6 | Our dear friend Arlene needs help finding answers as well. |
| 0:51.6 | Her uncle and best friend, Leon LaRalleis, was murdered in Brown County just outside |
| 0:56.8 | Brownville in 1996. She's been stonewalled in every attempt to get answers, |
| 1:03.9 | so if you are able, please donate to her GoFundMe. |
| 1:08.0 | I'll provide a link to that, the Fort Worth Cold Case Support Group, |
| 1:12.0 | and dnasolves in the show notes. Now onto the episode. |
| 1:17.1 | The Gone Cold Podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter. |
| 1:21.2 | Listener discretion is advised. |
| 1:25.0 | On Wednesday, August 3, 2022, President Joe Biden signed the Homicide Victims Family's |
| 1:31.6 | Rights Act of 2021 into law. It's been reported that the writing of this legislation |
| 1:38.8 | was inspired by the 1991 murders of 13-year-old Amy Ayers, 15-year-old Sarah Harbison, |
| 1:46.1 | Sarah's 17-year-old sister, Jennifer Harbison, and 17-year-old Eliza Thomas. |
| 1:53.6 | The horrific deaths of these four teenage girls is perhaps better known as the Austin |
| 1:59.2 | yogurt shop murders. The case remains unsolved. |
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