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Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Taken for Ransom: The Kidnapping of Kim Leggett

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime

4.41.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

On October 9th, 1984, a mystery began in Mercedes, Texas, adding to the many others in the Rio Grande Valley. Twenty-one-year-old Kim Sue Leggett was kidnapped from her place of employment, Ross Cotton Gin. A phone call that took place literally minutes after she was taken and a ransom letter sent to Kim’s parents a few days later were virtually the only clues Mercedes Police, Hidalgo County Sheriff’s Office investigators, the Texas Rangers, and the FBI had to work with. Kim was never seen alive again; her remains never found. Her kidnapping was cold from the beginning and remains so today.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Kim Sue Leggett, please contact the Mercedes Police Department at 956-565-3102 or Texas Crime stoppers at 800-252-8477.

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The Mercedes Enterprise, The Brownsville Herald, The McAllen Monitor, The Sonoma Press Democrat, The Longview News-Journal, The Victoria Advocate, The Del Rio News Herald, and KRVG News were used as sources for this episode. 

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