Lost in the Desert Part 1: Marjorie Knox & Melissa Alaniz

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime

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🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Almost immediately after rapist and pedophile David Leonard Wood left prison in Huntsville, Texas and paroled to his mother’s house in El Paso, teenaged girls and young women began disappearing. Though the bodies of six of the females were eventually found, and Wood convicted of killing them, three remain missing to this day. This episode of gone cold is the story of the Desert Killer’s known victims and two that are potentially are as well: Marjorie Knox and Melissa Alaniz.

If you have any information about the disappearances of Marjorie Alice Knox, please contact the Dona Ana County, New Mexico Sheriff’s Office at 575-526-0795.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Melissa Alaniz, please contact the El Paso Police at 915-832-4445.

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The El Paso Times, The Austin Statesman, and court appeal documents were used as sources for this episode.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	A few things before we get into this episode of Gone Cold.
0:05.7	First, we'd like to wish you all a happy and healthy New Year.
0:10.5	We appreciate each and every one of you, and here's hoping things will start looking
0:14.5	up in 2022.
0:16.7	Fingers crossed.
0:18.9	Also before we begin, we'd like to play y'all a trailer for our friend Pages podcast,
0:24.4	Revery True Crime.
0:26.5	Give Revery a listen, we think y'all will like it.
0:29.9	Fingers page.
0:30.9	I'm Pages, the host of Revery True Crime.
0:37.8	I tell stories of helpless victims, vicious killers, predators watching their prey before
0:45.6	they strike, survivors, petty crimes, people we think we know who do the unthinkable, and
0:54.8	the dangers that lurk not only in the dead of night, but in plain sight in the light
1:00.7	of day.
1:03.4	Every once in a while I'll also tell stories of the frightening paranormal, elusive cryptids,
1:10.8	haunted locations, and conspiracies that may be silly, or thought provoking.
1:18.8	You can listen to Revery True Crime wherever you're listening to this podcast.
1:25.6	Feel free to follow me on Twitter at Revery CrimePod, Facebook, Instagram, and even Tumblr
1:34.6	at Revery True Crime.
1:37.4	Remember, stay safe, be aware of your surroundings at all times, and take care.
1:48.4	The Gone Cold Podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion
1:53.3	is advised.
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