The Abduction & Slaying of Danydia Thompson

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

When 7-year-old Danydia Betty-Jacqueline Thompson didn’t show up after school to meet her brother and sister for the walk home, both of them knew something was terribly wrong. After telling relatives, the campus of Marlboro Elementary was poured through again in an attempt to find the missing first-grader, but attempts were fruitless. For 8 days, family, neighbors, professionals, law enforcement, Fort Hood soldiers, and countless Killeen residents searched for Danydia. On that 8th day, two military volunteers searching overgrown roadsides miles south of town found the body of Danydia Thompson. Her murder remains unsolved to this day.

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0:00.0	Back in 2017, when we started Gun Cold, we often spoke about our friend Christina's blog
0:08.0	at TheTrueCrimeFiles.com. Needless to say, we were elated in 2019 when Christina put
0:15.8	the TrueCrime Files to podcast, with the help of co-host Scott Fuller. Well, we're
0:21.8	still huge fans of both TheTrueCrimeFiles.com and The Podcast. If you're a regular
0:28.8	Gun Cold listener, we think it's safe to say, you'll be a huge fan too. We'll let Christina
0:34.4	take it from here.
0:40.7	Hi, I'm Christina and I'd like to introduce you to TheTrueCrimeFiles podcast. A bi-weekly
0:46.4	podcast that focuses on mysterious disappearances and unsolved murders. Every two weeks,
0:52.4	we'll be releasing an episode that will help you get to know a case really well without having
0:57.1	to invest a lot of your time. Derived from the articles upon TheTrueCrimeFiles website,
1:02.5	you'll find that our show covers a diversity of victims and perspectives.
1:06.8	You'll probably also notice that our episodes are narrated by Scott Fuller from The Frozen Truth
1:11.7	and Status Pending Podcasts. Be sure to subscribe to TheTrueCrimeFiles today so that you never
1:17.6	miss an episode. Thanks so much for listening, being a part of our TrueCrime community,
1:22.4	and helping to shine a light on cases that might otherwise be overlooked or under-reported.
1:34.4	The Gun Cold podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter. Listener discretion is advised.
1:42.3	Located roughly 40 miles north of Austin, on the westernmost edge of Bell County,
1:48.0	Colleen, Texas, was founded in 1882, after the land was purchased by the railroad to extend
1:54.8	tracks through the area the prior year. After the tracks were built, construction on 72 City
2:02.0	blocks began, on the town named after railroad executive Frank P. Colleen, a man who wasn't
2:09.3	from the area and in fact had never even stepped foot there. Immediately following the Lumbryard
2:16.5	grist mills and cotton jins to the area were a couple saloons, followed by, of course, drunk
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