The Cold-Blooded Slaying of Paula Jean Davenport

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

On April 25th, 1978, 25-year-old Paula Jean Davenport left home to go bowling with her company’s league. She never made it into the Brunswick Bowlerland, however, and never made it back home. Paula’s parents reported her missing to police but was found a couple days later by another jurisdiction, deceased from gunshot wounds. A suspect emerged quickly but Fort Worth Police were ultimately unable to collect the evidence against the individual they needed to get an indictment. Though they were sure they had the right suspect, Paula Davenport’s murder remains unsolved.

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0:00.0	The Gone Cold Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter.
0:04.8	Listener discretion is advised.
0:08.4	At approximately 115 a.m. on Friday, September 28, 1973. Two men fled the Shep's Food Store located in East Dallas just outside the Shep's Dairy Factory. Inside, 52-year-old William Stewart Moon laid bleeding on the floor, shot
0:28.7	once in the temple with a 22 caliber firearm.
0:33.0	Moon, who'd been promoted to manager the day before, died not long after at Parkland Hospital's critical care unit.
0:42.0	The men who'd fled after robbing the store made out with little.
0:47.1	Moon died ultimately for a cigar box full of rolled coins and his unloaded revolver.
0:54.0	The following day Herman Sheps, the president of the company,
0:59.2	announced a large reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the men who'd taken the life of the company's loyal employee and friend.
1:10.0	The reward led to a lot of heat being brought down on the assailants.
1:14.9	And a month later, 23-year-old Howie Ray Robinson turned himself in to Dallas Police.
1:22.1	He and another man, 26-year-old Ernest Benjamin Smith, entered the store, Robinson
1:28.1	said, while 35-year-old George Robinson remained outside in a car with the motor running.
1:36.0	Howie Robinson said he didn't know Smith was planning on robbing the store and only found
1:41.0	out that was the plan when he returned to the front of the establishment
1:45.4	after grabbing some items to purchase from the back.
1:49.2	When he approached the counter, Robinson told police, Smith and Shep's food manager, William Moon, both had
1:56.5	pistols drawn, pointing them at one another. Smith saw him approach, Robinson claimed, and dropped below the counter.
2:06.3	When he did, William Moon adjusted his aim at Robinson.
2:11.5	Robinson quickly drew his weapon and fired it into the store manager's head in self-defense, he claimed.
2:18.0	It was a ridiculous story, or at least the jury thought so, and Robinson was convicted and given the death penalty at his June 1974 trial.
2:30.0	The death of an employee shook President Herman Sheps and led to his decision to subsequently offer similar rewards in several other unsolved
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