The Cold-Blooded & Forgotten Slaying of Leslye Diane Koon

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 21 June 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On January 24th, 1969, one of Gregg County, Texas’s most cold-blooded and savage murders occurred: that of 17-year-old Longview High School senior Leslye Diane Koon. The slaying prompted one of the city’s most extensive and intensive investigations in its history. What you might call a taskforce was created that included the Gregg County Sheriff’s Office, the District Attorney’s Office, and Longview Police Detectives, who were on loan out of their jurisdiction. Upon the discovery of a life insurance policy in Leslye’s name, the District Attorney identified three suspects who were charged, indicted, and tried for the murder. But the case remains unsolved to this day – and hasn’t been mentioned since.

If you have any information about the 1969 murder of Leslye Diane Koon, please contact Gregg County Crime Stoppers at 903-236-STOP.

Submit your DNA data from a consumer testing company to Othram’s database, dnasolves.com. It’s only used for law enforcement investigations: https://dnasolves.com/user/register

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The Texas State Historical Society, AmericanRoads.us, the Longview News-Journal, The Shreveport Journal, Tyler Morning Telegraph, and The Kilgore News Herald were used as sources for this episode.

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0:00.0	Before we get into it, we'd like to share how you can help solve cold cases and help
0:06.4	identify Jane and John Does at DNASOLVES.com.
0:11.8	In February of 1988 in Cheyenne, Wyoming, a couple out on a walk discovered a deceased
0:18.3	infant in a culvert wrapped in a blanket.
0:22.2	Although the Laramie County Sheriff's Office can vest area hospitals and other places, hoping
0:27.9	to find information about the baby boy, they exhausted all leads into his death, which
0:34.0	had been ruled a homicide.
0:36.9	The baby John Doe was never identified.
0:40.9	Just this year, 2021, Laramie County Wyoming authorities teamed up with Authorum Incorporated
0:47.4	in hopes to identify this child, the first step to solving the boy's death.
0:53.5	That's where you can help.
0:55.7	Authorum specializes in the recovery, enrichment, and analysis of human DNA from trace quantities
1:02.5	of degraded or contaminated forensic evidence.
1:06.4	At their website, DNASOLVES.com, you'll find a crowdfunding campaign for this case.
1:12.7	And at the time of this recording, only $1,264 is needed to fully fund it.
1:20.7	There are several other cases there too that need the public's help.
1:24.9	These are cases that the law enforcement agency handling them do not have the funds to
1:29.9	perform testing.
1:32.1	If you'd like to be a part of that, please go to DNASOLVES.com and choose a case to help,
1:37.9	or help them all if you want.
1:40.4	Also, while you're there, you can upload your DNA data from a consumer testing company,
1:46.0	think ancestry.com or 23andme.com to DNASOLVES.com's database.
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