Justice for Carla Part 3: Guilty

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 12 September 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In a surprise move, Glen Samuel McCurley changed his plea from “not guilty” to “guilty” on Tuesday, August 24th, 2021, the third day of his trial for the February 1974 murder of Carla Jan Walker. On Part 3 of Justice for Carla, Emily Dixon speaks with us about what the third day of trial had in store if it had proceeded and Carla’s siblings, Jim and Cindy, share with us their thoughts on everything from their allocations to their sister’s new legacy – her murder case as a template for other families desperate for answers.

Special thanks to Cindy, Jim, Tarrant County Assistant Criminal District Attorney Emily Dixon, Nicole (Juror #6), and Detectives Jeff Bennett and Leah Wagner for their contributions to this episode.

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0:00.0	The Gone Cold podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion
0:05.5	is advised.
0:08.4	Since I'd stayed up till all hours the night before, frantically trying to finish an
0:13.1	episode about the second day of the trial of Glenn Samuel McCurley, I was running late
0:18.6	on Tuesday, August 24, 2021, the third day of trial.
0:24.6	My head was pounding from whatever the south wind blew up this way, and that wasn't
0:29.5	helping any.
0:31.4	I took some Advil and chugged down a couple cups of coffee and rushed out the door, headed
0:36.8	for the Tim Curry Criminal Justice Center.
0:40.2	As soon as I hit downtown Fort Worth, of course, the traffic was backed all the way up
0:45.2	to where Highway 121 merges into Bellnap Street.
0:49.6	When I finally made it inside Tarant County Criminal Court 1, about five minutes till
0:54.6	9, everyone was standing, the scene was a bit chaotic.
1:00.6	Many folks were crying, comforting one another as they decompressed 47 years worth of sadness
1:07.3	and uncertainty.
1:09.2	Carla Walker's brother Jim was embracing Glenn McCurley's son, one of the most recent
1:14.8	victims of this man's depraved act of physical and sexual violence.
1:20.5	I had no idea what was happening.
1:23.2	Was there an angry or emotional outburst in the court by the defendant I wondered, or perhaps
1:29.3	one of Carla's friends or family members and attendants?
1:33.7	Within a minute of entering, I was approached by someone who asked if I saw what happened.
1:39.7	They were late getting there too, but it got the scoop just moments before I arrived.
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