Justice for Carla Part 1: 1974-2020

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

It wasn’t for a lack of effort and determination that past Fort Worth Police Detectives couldn’t solve the February 17th, 1974 murder of Carla Walker. It was because her killer was a complete stranger and the technology needed to find the perpetrator didn’t exist. Forty-five years after the terrible crime, Detectives Leah Wagner and Jeff Bennett began working the case from scratch, and their diligence paid off after their paths crossed both Mallory Pagenkopf of the Serological Research Institute and David Mittelman of Othram, Incorporated. In September of 2020, Carla’s killer was arrested.

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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.
0:07.0	17-year-old Carla Walker and the rest of her peers and tennis class presumably paid little
0:14.0	attention as Fort Worth policeman James Johnson presented a film titled The Loan Woman
0:20.0	on Thursday, February 14, 1974, Valentine's Day.
0:26.1	After all, there was a dance to celebrate the sweetheart's day coming up on Saturday.
0:32.1	It's easy to imagine that Carla's thoughts were elsewhere as Officer Johnson screened
0:37.3	the cautionary film, which gave explicit instructions on what a girl or woman should do in the event
0:44.1	of an attack against her.
0:46.6	It was attending the dance with her boyfriend Rodney McCoy that was likely on Carla's
0:52.1	mind.
0:53.5	Do not think this can't happen to you.
0:56.2	The policeman strongly emphasized upon the film's completion.
1:02.1	The evening of Western Hills High School's 1974 Valentine's Day dance, 18-year-old Rodney
1:08.7	McCoy cleaned up after a day of service station work, hopped in his mom's 1969 Ford LTD and
1:16.4	headed to the Walker family home in Benbrook to pick up his date.
1:21.6	As he'd forgotten to bring the corsage that sat in the refrigerator and had to go back,
1:27.2	he was a little late picking up Carla.
1:30.2	When Rodney got there, he got the look as he and others later called it.
1:35.4	The icy stair was wiped away, though, as Rodney pinned the corsage on the Texas teenage
1:41.0	spitfire.
1:43.2	The evening started out normal, just how anyone might expect.
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