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

When the Fort Worth Police sat down for a meeting to discuss forming a task force in early January,

1985, they knew they'd be concentrating on a total of four cases. The late September 1984 disappearance of

23-year-old Catherine Davis. The late October disappearance of Cindy Heller, also 23 years old. The early

December disappearance of 21-year-old Angela Ewert and the brutal murder of 15-year-old Sarah Ann

Koshka, who vanished from southwest Fort Worth, but whose body was found in far southwest

Dallas. Later on the very day the task force was formed, Cindy Heller's missing persons

case became a homicide case when a positive

identification came through. Her body had been discovered by children on the campus of Texas

Christian University the day before. Just a couple weeks later, in late January, 1985,

the body of Catherine Davis was found in far south Fort Worth,

about a half a mile north of Crowley City limits.

Then the newly formed unit was responsible for the investigation of four murders,

as the body of 20-year-old Lisa Griffin was found on the day the task force launched and won disappearance,

as Angela Ewert was yet to be found. Her case anyway was being handled as if it were a murder.

Fow play was obvious. Seemingly unable to catch a break, the special Homicide Task Force's hands were full and growing fuller.

Fear they'd add more victims to their unfortunate roster, had detectives and officers in a constant state of nausea,

and overwhelmed by the idea of telling another family member, another mother or father, that their

loved one or child had been murdered. The realization that they were probably looking at multiple

killers didn't help settle their stomachs any. After piecing together connections and

similarities, the local press seemed convinced a serial killer

was on the loose. While hard-boiled and sleep-deprived detectives, strung yarn depends

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