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The Gone Cold Podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter. Listener discretion is

advised. Thursday, August 19, 1982 was a sweltering Texas day, so hot, in fact, that the children at

Fort Worth's North High Mount Elementary had been kept inside. But, as kids do, they were

growing restless, and at about 140 p.m., teachers had relented and were

leading the kids outside for a quick recess. At that moment, custodian James Hughes was picking up

trash from the school's playground. Oddly, he thought, among the various strewn papers and Coke cans were a pair of blue jogging

shorts with white piping and a pair of women's underwear. As he continued his duties, Mr. Hughes

attempted to reason with why the items were there, but his thoughts were cut short by an appalling

discovery about 25 feet away.

As the students made their way out, the custodian frantically alerted the teachers to send

them back inside immediately. The children couldn't be allowed to see what Mr. Hughes had found

in the sandy area of the playground,

the partially nude body of a woman wearing only an unbuttoned black shirt and bra,

which was stretched over her right shoulder. The kids were led back inside the school before

any of them could see. James Hughes was shaken. She was beat up so

bad, he later told a reporter for the Fort Worth Star Telegram. She was black and blue on her

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