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Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Of Hell: Texas True Crime, Slayer Saint Part One: Danita

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

In April 1974, 16-year-old Danita Ann Cash drove to the abandoned Trinity River Bridge, better known in local lore as “Screaming Bridge,” to pick up her brother from target practice. But instead of finding the boys, she encountered a stranger with a shotgun who forced his way into her car. What began as a routine favor turned into a harrowing abduction attempt that Danita survived only through courage, calm decisions, and faith. Her escape would set off a police investigation that quickly zeroed in on a young carpet layer with a dark trail behind him, a man investigators believed might be responsible for other brutal attacks and unsolved murders across Fort Worth, namely the abduction and murder of 17-year-old Carla Walker the previous February.

This is the terrifying true story of the day evil stepped out of the woods in broad daylight — and a teenager fought for her life.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

The weather. Tomorrow, expect a... Biting cold front. Mmm, how naughty. I wonder what I'll be wearing or taking off. The night will be wild and untamed. Expect heavy, lashing rain that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise, slowly but surely, reaching their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

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0:25.5

Fly cheaply to Turkey with Sun Express.

0:28.6

Sun Express, nonstop sunshine.

0:30.9

Hi, y'all.

0:40.9

As you're hearing this, the first few episodes of our new podcast of Hell, Texas True Crime, have been released, all three parts of our series called Slayer Saint. So, we wanted to share the first episode with you here on Gone Colds

0:47.9

feed. If you like what you hear, you can subscribe and listen to the rest of this particular story wherever you get your

0:56.0

podcasts. And at the beginning of the new year, we'll be releasing another multi-part series. Without

1:03.4

further ado, Here's of Hell, Slayer Saint Part 1, Danita. Again, you can subscribe now on all podcast apps.

1:14.5

Of Hell, Texas True Crime includes descriptions of violence, trauma, and other sensitive topics.

1:21.4

Listener discretion is strongly advised.

1:24.9

On the east side of Fort Worth, where the Trinity River bends slow through cottonwood and oak,

1:32.2

there's an old bridge that used to hold more secrets than steel.

1:36.7

They called it screaming bridge.

1:39.5

Teenagers came here to chase a legend, but one spring afternoon in 1974, a new ghost story was nearly

1:47.6

written. A 16-year-old girl drove there thinking she was safe, thinking she was just performing

1:54.9

a routine errand on a beautiful spring day. But evil doesn't always stalk in the dark.

2:02.1

Sometimes it waits in broad daylight with a shotgun.

2:06.4

What happened next would terrify Fort Worth

2:09.8

and set detectives on the trail of a man whose crimes ran deeper than anyone imagined.

2:30.6

Yeah. ran deeper than anyone imagined. Tuesday, April 23, 1974, 1974.

2:39.7

16-year-old Danita Ann Cash smiled as she cruised the wooded country roads in Fort Worth, Texas, near a place known as the River Bottoms. Fort Worth

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