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Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

The Bosque County Execution of Shelia Vandygriff

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In August of 1984, just five months after 13-year-old Helen Kilgore was found murdered on the side the road, authorities in Bosque County, Texas had another body – that of 19-year-old Hood County woman Shelia Vandygriff. Though Shelia was murdered, the friend with whom she was abducted was set free after being assaulted. She went to Hood County authorities with what had happened, but they struggled to find leads, at least any that were viable or made any sense. After three law enforcement jurisdiction, the Bosque County Sheriff’s Office, the Hood County Sheriff’s Office, and the Texas Rangers failed to identify a strong suspect, the murder of Shelia Vandygriff went cold. Was there a connection between Shelia’s murder and the other three in the county within a two-year period that shared similarities?

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0:00.0

The Gond Cole Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter.

0:05.8

Listener discretion is advised.

0:07.8

At about 1230 PM on Wednesday. on Wednesday, August 8th, 1984, a Bosky County Road

0:16.2

maintenance worker was traveling down a remote dirt country road that branches

0:21.2

off Texas State Highway 144, about three miles west of the county seat,

0:27.0

Meridian.

0:29.0

The man sat high in his truck and as he surveilled the roads for work that needed to be done, he discovered the body of a woman at the bottom of a small roadside cliff.

0:40.0

He quickly drove to notify the sheriff's office, who arrived at the scene not long after.

0:46.0

Sheriff's deputies combed the area for clues, while Bosky County Justice of the Peace

0:51.8

James Corpier inspected the young woman's body. The Alplay was certain at the get-go, the blindfold covering the young woman's eyes said as much.

1:07.4

This type of thing was unusual in Bosky County, not necessarily the discovery of a body, but the discovery of one so soon after another

1:17.7

that resembled the circumstances, less than five months before and only eight miles away, the body of a 13 year old girl,

1:26.4

Helen Marie Kilgore, was found, rolled up in a moving blanket and dumped on the side of another remote country road.

1:34.7

It appeared to Corpier that the subject of this new discovery had met a similar fate as

1:40.3

Helen, a gunshot wound to the head.

1:44.5

Peace Justice Corpier carefully looked over the deceased female.

1:49.2

She was fully clothed and wore shoes, but looked to have been barefooted at some point as the flesh on

1:56.3

her feet was lacerated and raw, perhaps as if she had attempted to flee for her life.

2:03.1

It looked like the body belonged to a young woman in her late teens or early 20s,

2:08.5

Corpier thought, and the reddish brunette looked to be about five feet seven inches tall.

2:15.2

On a right shoulder was a good clue, at least as far as her identity was concerned.

2:21.3

There was a tattoo of the name Dion.

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