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Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

No Trace: The Disappearance of Tara Breckenridge

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2021

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On August 4th, 1992, 23-year-old Tara Breckenridge vanished without so much as a trace after leaving her job at Houston’s The Men’s Club. Besides a theory that her car was tampered with, Houston Detectives were ultimately unable to find a single solid lead, even after discovering that Tara had an admirer and that she and her boyfriend were having relationship trouble. After a 2007 DNA match between two other unsolved Houston cases, speculation that a serial rapist and killer was stalking women who worked at adult entertainment venues was the talk of the metropolis.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Tara Breckenridge, please call Houston Crime Stoppers at 713-222-8477.

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The Houston Chronicle, The Del Rio News-Herald, and the television show Unsolved Mysteries were used as sources for this episode.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Sarah, where's the car? It's gone. It's not gone. It's with fixer. Since you never got

0:04.5

round to fixing it, I took care of it. Fixed up. Fixed up. Fixed up great. They pick

0:08.4

up your car, drive it to the garage, handle the maintenance, then drive it straight

0:11.1

back to you. Sounds expensive. Don't worry. They negotiate their prices with their partner

0:14.8

garages and the car pickup services included. So since that's all handled, how about you

0:18.8

take a look at that leaky tab or do you need me to fix that too? For easy car maintenance,

0:23.0

head to fixter.co.uk. We'll pick up your car and take care of all the rest. Fixed up

0:28.2

and you'll back on track. The gone cold podcast may contain violent or

0:33.6

graphic subject matter. Listener discretion is advised. One of Houston, Texas's most well-known

0:41.7

and infamous unsolved cases is the August 1990 murders of Cheryl Henry and Andy Atkinson.

0:50.3

Both of them, 22 years old and 21 years old, respectively, were found brutally slain near

0:56.7

an isolated cul-de-sac in the city's far west. Cheryl and Andy had been bound at the

1:03.1

wrists with rope and their throats deeply slashed. Cheryl had been raped.

1:10.3

At the time, this area was heavily wooded and undeveloped, a spot that was known as

1:15.3

a place young couples could park and do what sweethearts do with little fear of being

1:20.1

busted by the cops or anyone else. Andy and Cheryl's terrible end became known throughout

1:27.2

Texas as the lover's lane murders of Houston. In 2007, the Houston Police got word that

1:34.5

a DNA profile obtained from Seaman collected from Cheryl's body, matched DNA collected from

1:40.6

a rape victim that same year, but a month earlier. This survivor had worked a shift as

1:47.5

a dancer at a club called GGs and was attacked a little before 3am in her boyfriend's home

1:53.9

while he was away working as a commercial airline pilot.

1:58.7

The rapist who wore a fishnet stocking over his face, black gloves, and what appeared

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