Christy Tower & Hillside Jane Doe: The February Slayings Part 4

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Part 4 of 4. Beginning in 1967, a series of murders in Fort Worth that had at least a few similarities began. Their obvious similarity: they all took place in the month of February. The first four were as follows: Mildred May in 1967, Becky Martin in 1973, Carla Walker in 1974, and June Ward in 1977. The murders became known by some members of law enforcement, and certainly to the press, as the February Slayings. This episode is about the fifth in this series, the 1983 murder of Christy Tower...and another that was never mentioned alongside the others, the 1986 murder of Hillside Jane Doe.

If you have any information about the 1979 murder of Susan Boatman Kilgore, the 1983 murder of Christy Jean Tower, or the 1986 slaying of Hillside Jane Doe, please contact the Fort Police Department Cold Case Unit at 817 392 4307.

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0:00.0	The Gone Cold Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter. Listener discretion is advised.
0:08.8	At 1.30 p.m. on Monday, March 12, 1979, an employee of a jewelry store located in the South Cliff Shopping Center in southwest Fort Worth,
0:20.7	phoned the police to report
0:22.4	a terrible odor coming from a vehicle parked in the lot. The car from which the smell originated,
0:29.6	a red 1968 Chevy Camaro, had been in the same spot for approximately a month, the jewelry
0:36.3	employee reported. Responding officer John
0:40.0	Campbell noted that the car was locked, and on the driver's door, a note was found that read,
0:46.5	I would like to buy your vehicle, call me at, followed by a telephone number. When the policeman
0:52.7	peered inside, he could see several boxes in the back
0:56.3	seat. After he jimmied the lock using a long wire, Officer Campbell discovered clothing,
1:03.2	chemistry notes, and a chemistry set within the boxes. A shoe box hid a purse and wallet,
1:10.0	which contained some jewelry, change, and several unspent
1:14.8	38-caliber bullets.
1:17.8	Campbell radioed his superior, Sergeant Richard Andrews, who responded to the scene to
1:23.6	observe the trunk being opened.
1:26.3	Using a pry bar, Officer Campbell popped the trunk.
1:30.3	The sight and smell was overwhelming.
1:33.5	Inside, lying on a large piece of plastic,
1:36.8	was the badly decomposed body of a woman,
1:39.8	clad in blue jeans, a plaid shirt, and white socks.
1:47.7	She'd been shot to death, multiple times in her chest. The victim was tentatively identified as 26-year-old Susan Boatman Kilgore by documentation found
1:56.3	within the car, and later officially identified.
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