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The Fall Line: True Crime

Dallas, Texas: The Murder of Catherine “Catrina” Mowrey

The Fall Line: True Crime

The Fall Line® Podcast, LLC

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

4.64.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In the first series of our latest season, we cover the unsolved 1985 death of Catherine “Catrina” Mowrey, a 24-year-old Kansas native who’d moved to Dallas, Texas at age 18; days after she was supposed to arrive home in Kansas for a visit, her body was found miles from her apartment, wrapped in sheet, in the trunk of car. Her case classification, her cause of death, possible persons of interest—it’s all a knot her niece and namesake has been striving to unravel. 

If you have any information in the unsolved death of Catherine "Catrina" Mowrey, please contact Dallas Police at [email protected].

 

Season 23 covers unsolved homicides in Dallas, Texas and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in cooperation with the family member-advocates seeking resolution—and justice—for their loved ones. 

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0:00.0

This is the first episode in our latest season covering unsolved homicides across the United States

0:05.5

and the first in a two-part series. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are solely the

0:10.8

interviewee zone. All individuals are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

0:15.6

This two-part series discusses drug use, violence, crime scenes, autopsy, homicide, and suicide. If you or

0:23.9

loved one is struggling with suicidal thoughts, please call the National Suicide Prevention

0:29.0

Lifeline at 800, 273, 8255 or 911 if there's an immediate emergency or crisis. Listener discretion is advised.

0:45.6

This is the fall line.

0:50.3

1985, Dallas, Texas, the real estate boom meant never-ending construction, and the population grew steadily,

0:58.5

new opportunities and employment for residents, and more crime to, nearly universal in

1:03.8

major metropolitan areas in the late 1980s, and Dallas was no exception.

1:09.8

Dallas was still years off from a banking crisis that would change the

1:13.7

city's landscape. New residents flooded in, and the city was busy and lively and bustling. In late June,

1:21.0

it was stiflingly hot, with highs creeping into the 90s, heat settled into asphalt and reflected off metal and glass onto sidewalks

1:29.8

where residents rushed past each other. Twenty-four-year-old Catherine, Katrina Maury,

1:35.3

was one of those people, living in a little apartment in the city. She wasn't a Dallas native.

1:40.7

She was born in Kansas. But at 18, she'd followed her sister Joanne to the city.

1:45.8

Katrina traveled back and forth between the two states often, even spending time living back at home.

1:51.5

Joanne stayed in Texas. She had legal issues that complicated her return to Kansas.

1:57.2

Katrina had been home to Kansas as recently as Christmas, and she spoke to her youngest sister Deborah practically every day.

2:04.5

Deborah had never permanently joined Joanne and Katrina in Dallas.

2:08.4

She was enrolled in school back in Kansas,

2:10.8

and they'd grown up in a big, close-knit family,

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