The Abduction & Murder of Ashley Estell Part 2: Candy Man

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime

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🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

While the Plano Police investigated the abduction and death of 7-year-old Ashley Estell, a strange man with a pertinent criminal history made himself a suspect. Unbeknownst to the grieving and angry residents of the suburb city, along with the rest of North Texas, the cops were building a case against 23-year-old Dallas carpet cleaner and convicted child molester Michael Nawee Blair. When the arrest came 6 days after Ashley was slain, residents were shocked – but upon learning of the man’s disturbing criminal past and his early release from prison, the public’s shock turned to outrage and a campaign against the practices of the Texas justice system got underway. Part 2 of 3.

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0:00.0	The concollege podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion
0:06.7	is advised.
0:10.0	At a press conference shortly after the body of seven-year-old Ashley Nicole Estelle was
0:15.3	found.
0:16.5	More than six miles from where she was last seen, the mayor of Plano, Texas offered only
0:22.8	somber words.
0:35.7	Though Plano Police reviewed a significant number of photographs and video footage taken
0:41.7	at the city's Carpenter Park on September 5, 1993, evidence and tips leading to the
0:48.8	person responsible for the broad daylight abduction and subsequent murder of the girl or few
0:55.2	and far in between.
0:58.0	The FBI had entered the investigation almost immediately upon Ashley's disappearance,
1:04.9	but when her body was found almost exactly 24 hours later, they relinquished control
1:10.6	of the case back to the local police department.
1:14.9	The residents of Plano, a middle-class suburb of Dallas that was deemed the safest city
1:21.0	in the state at the time, were in a state of shock and panic, particularly the parents
1:27.0	of young children.
1:29.4	A little over a month before, in the city directly to Plano's southeast, Garland, an eight-year-old
1:36.2	boy named Kim Noen vanished.
1:39.9	His body was discovered less than two weeks later.
1:43.4	The death ruled a homicide.
1:46.5	Don't you think it's a little strange that two children of approximately the same age
1:51.6	disappear and are killed within about a month of each other?
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