Elizabeth Barclay & the Dallas Child Murders

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 4 October 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In October of 1979 7-year-old Elizabeth Lynne Barclay, along with her little brother and a neighbor friend, headed to a convenience store near home to get some ice cream. Just minutes after they left, Elizabeth’s brother came running back to the Barclay apartment, telling his mother that his big sister had been taken by a man. What followed was a massive search effort conducted by the Dallas Police, the Barclay Family, and volunteers from all over. She was found deceased miles from home about 7 weeks later. The death was ruled homicide, most likely by gunshot wound. No clear suspect was ever identified, but it’s likely at least some Dallas Detectives theorized a connection between Elizabeth’s case and the 1977 murders and abductions of 7-year-old Ladina Ann McCoy and 12-year-old Suzie Marie Mages. Clear suspects in those cases, too, are elusive.

If you have any information about the 1979 murder of Elizabeth Barclay, please contact the Texas Rangers at their cold case website (dps.texas.gov/coldcase) or by phone at 800-346-3242

If you have any information about the 1977 murder of Ladina McCoy, or the 1977 murder of Suzie Mages, please contact North Texas Crime Stoppers at 877 373 8477

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0:00.0	The Gone Cold Podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion
0:05.3	is advised.
0:31.0	On Tuesday, June 26, 1979, at an apartment complex in the Dallas, Texas,
0:37.2	suburb of Mesquite, six-year-old Tyra Christine Heath popped her head into her
0:42.2	family's home at about seven pm. Little Tyra had been out in the
0:47.5	complex's courtyard, playing with other children, and took a break in an attempt to
0:52.4	charm her mother Janice out of a couple brownies. But dinner was almost ready,
0:57.2	the mother told her daughter, and there was no way she was getting a brownie
1:01.0	before supper, let alone two. Tyra wasn't the type of child to throw a fit, and
1:07.0	instead she happily returned to her little friends outside to play until it was
1:12.2	time to eat. Janice and Tyra were new to Mesquite. They'd only moved into the
1:17.8	centrally located apartment complex, with relatives two weeks before. This
1:23.4	evening, in fact, was the first time Tyra had been allowed to play outside by
1:28.4	herself since the move. Gary, Tyra's father, was in the process of
1:34.0	transitioning from his job at a general electric factory in Tyler to a Dallas
1:39.5	catering company, and was days away from joining his wife and daughter in
1:43.9	Mesquite. After Janice finished with dinner, taking her eyes off Tyra for about
1:50.1	15 minutes, she went outside looking for her daughter. It was about 7.30 pm.
1:56.8	Neighbors helped look, casually glancing over the several kids running back and
2:02.0	forth for signs of six-year-old Tyra. Panic began to set in as Janice could find
2:08.2	no trace of her daughter after several minutes, which turned into hours of
2:12.9	scouring the complex grounds and visiting other residents to ask if they'd
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