Shaunte Coleman, Terri Reyes, and the Bad Cop

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Vincent Strange

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🗓️ 23 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Between May and July of 2006, two women went missing from Jacksonville, Texas: Shaunte Coleman and Terri Reyes. According to an area newspaper, the women knew each other, but that wasn’t the connection that made foul play seem incredibly likely. It was their connection to a disgraced policeman – one accused of rape and assault many times over – that garnered the most suspicion. That suspicion, however, was felt far more by the public than the police, since both Terri and Shaunte roamed some and had known drug issues. Because of that, police seemed reluctant to investigate the disappearances properly. When their remains were found, the investigation shifted to another police agency entirely.

If you have any information about the deaths of Shaunte Mone Coleman or Terri Renee Reyes, please call the Nacogdoches county sheriff's office at 936-560-7794 or Texas Crime Stoppers at 800-252-8477.

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Sources: Court Documents, The Tyler Morning Telegraph, The Jacksonville Daily Progress, and KETK TV.

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0:00.0	Gone Cold Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter. Listener discretion is advised.
0:09.3	Deprivation of rights under color of law is a federal statute that makes it a crime for any person acting under color of law, usually a law enforcement officer, to willfully deprive from any person the rights,
0:24.0	privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution and laws of the United States
0:30.5	of America. Even conduct that occurs off duty can fall under the color of law statute. The FBI is generally the lead
0:39.8	investigative agency in such cases, most of which fall into one of five categories, deprivation
0:46.8	of property, failure to keep from harm, false arrest and or fabrication of evidence,
0:54.0	excessive force, and sexual assault.
0:58.0	In March of 2005, 33-year-old Jacksonville, Texas police officer Larry Pugh pulled his cruiser over and offered a woman who was walking home from her friend's house, a courtesy ride. The officer was on duty.
1:14.1	He was in uniform and armed. The woman accepted the ride. Instead of driving her home, however,
1:22.5	Officer Pugh drove the woman to a dark, abandoned trailer house and raped her.
1:28.2	Then he drove her back to the neighborhood where he picked her up.
1:32.1	Because she wished to speak with Detective Tanya Harris only,
1:36.7	the woman's official statement wasn't given for months.
1:40.5	But a few days after it was, on October 21st, 2005, Pew was suspended with pay from the Jacksonville Police Department, pending further investigation.
1:52.4	Pew, a husband and father of four young children, had been under scrutiny since police chief Mark Johnson caught wind of possible misconduct.
2:02.4	In Jacksonville, a city of around 14,000 residents at the time, rumors of Officer Pew committing
2:09.3	multiple sexual assaults were rampant in certain circles.
2:14.2	Chief Johnson contacted the Cherokee County District Attorney's Office, who then launched the investigation.
2:21.3	After collecting substantial evidence that Larry Pugh had committed several crimes,
2:26.5	crimes that fell under the deprivation of rights under color of law statute,
2:31.1	Chief Johnson turned over the investigation to the FBI.
2:35.8	Everything happened fast. Pugh was indicted, arrested, and arraigned on February 8, 2006.
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