The Broad Daylight Murder of Valerie McPherson

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime

4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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In 2013, 24-year-old Lauren Bump was brutally killed while jogging through San Antonio’s O.P. Schnabel Park, on the city’s northwest side, generally a safe, middle-class area and during the day. The stabbing murder was completely random; it was the act of a sociopath who simply wanted to cause pain and kill. Luckily, he was apprehended and eventually convicted of Lauren’s murder. The terrible crime was markedly similar to one that occurred 25 years before, in 1991. In August of that year, 32-year-old Valerie McPherson was jogging near her Olmos Park, Texas home in the San Antonio area during broad daylight, when she was savagely attacked by someone she didn’t know – stabbed repeatedly as she shielded her 19-month-old girl in the child’s running stroller. Val was able to describe her attacker but succumbed to her wounds four hours later at an area hospital. While it was impossible that the same man who killed Lauren Bump in 2013 was also responsible for Val McPherson’s murder, since he would have only been 4 years old in 1991, could the cases have had the same motive? Or, rather, the lack of motive?

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