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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

Texas Murder: Who killed Molly Matheson?

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

3.97.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2017

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Fort Worth, Texas, police found no signs of a forced entry at the pool house where Molly Matheson’s mom found the 22-year-old college student strangled to death on April 10, 2017. No suspects have been identified in the killing, which happened in a quiet neighborhood blocks from the Texas Christian University campus. Nancy Grace and Alan Duke discuss the Texas murder mystery in this episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I'm Cheryl McCollum, host of the brand new co-case podcast, Zone 7.

0:04.1

We're going to be talking to family members, detectives, prosecutors, and nationally recognized

0:09.1

experts that are in my Zone 7. The group of professionals that I've called on

0:13.6

to help me work hundreds of cases you've heard of and thousands you haven't.

0:18.0

We are going to solve these cases own air together. Listen to Zone 7 on the I Heart Radio app,

0:25.2

the Apple Podcast app or wherever you listen to your favorite podcast.

0:35.3

There was no fourth century in the strangulation death of a 22-year-old four-worth woman,

0:39.6

though they couldn't say whether Mathisyn knew the person who strangled her in her apartment

0:44.0

bathroom. Fort Worth police tell me that they do not have a suspect identified right now.

0:48.9

Police also said the 22-year-old likely died sometime Sunday night or Monday morning.

0:54.1

Her mother discovered her body around 430 Monday afternoon.

0:58.4

This is current stories with Nancy Grace. A family friend described her as the funniest person.

1:04.2

Nobody could ever hit her. She was just so amazing. A woman who was involved in church and had a

1:08.8

clever sense of humor. Though she lived near TCU, Molly was not a student here. She spent time

1:14.7

studying at the University of Arkansas and graduated from Keller's Timber Creek High School in 2012.

1:20.6

That's just one class ahead of Zuzu Verk. It was also murdered in 22 back in October.

1:27.1

A church-going sorority girl has been found dead in her apartment near Texas Christian University.

1:37.0

Now let's be clear. The fact that she is a sorority girl or a church goer or a devout Christian

1:44.8

does not make her life more or less valuable than any other crime victims. But it does

1:53.2

delineate the pool of suspects. I can tell you that much. This is Crime Stories. I'm Nancy Grace.

2:01.3

Thank you for being with us. I'm talking about Molly Matheson. So as you know, when you start a

2:08.8

homicide investigation, you look at those closest to the victim. You look at her husband, her

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