The Disappearance of Elizabeth Ann Campbell Part 2

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Part 2 of 2. Twenty-year-old Elizabeth Campbell’s family didn’t know how to find their daughter, a missing person, but at first, they did a far better job than police. Still, the efforts led nowhere. After four years with nothing to show, physical evidence materialized out of the blue in Ozona, Texas in a lost and found box at the Crockett County Sheriff’s Office: Elizabeth’s purse. Only, no one knew how or when it got there. Also, when the crimes of Robert Ben Rhoades, AKA the Truck Stop Killer, became widely known, the public began wondering if he could be responsible for Elizabeth’s disappearance.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Elizabeth Ann Campbell, please call the Copperas Cove Crime Stoppers at (254) 547-1111 or Bell County Crime Stoppers at (254) 526-8477. You can also submit a tip online at https://copperascovecrimestoppers.com/team/missing-elizabeth-ann-campbell

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The Austin American Statesman, kxxv.com, kcentv.com, kwtx.com, Unsolved Mysteries Season 2 Episode 8, and charleyproject.org/case/elizabeth-ann-campbell were used as sources for this episode.

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0:00.0	Hey y'all, before we get started, I need to make a correction.
0:05.3	Last episode, I misspoke and said that Tom and Samson Campbell originally reported Elizabeth
0:11.4	missing to police in Copras Cove, which is incorrect. They reported her missing to the Lampasas
0:18.5	police, who themselves later involved law enforcement
0:22.3	in Copras Cove. By the time you're hearing this, I've already made the changes to the episode,
0:29.1	but I wanted to let those of you who have already listened know as to avoid any confusion
0:34.4	it might cause this episode. Sorry about that.
0:39.3	The Gone Cold Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter. Listener discretion is advised.
0:46.5	After their daughter, Elizabeth disappeared, Tom and Samson Campbell spent years trying to find her.
0:54.2	They searched extensively along Highway 190 between Lampasus, where they lived,
1:00.5	and Coprous Cove, where Elizabeth was last seen, but found little more than a deer bone.
1:07.9	No sign of their missing daughter could be found.
1:10.7	No clothing, no jewelry, schoolbooks,
1:14.0	or purse. All items Elizabeth was known to be carrying as she tried to make her way home from
1:20.0	Colleen to Lampasus. Though they had a heated argument the night Elizabeth vanished, her boyfriend
1:26.9	Ricky Ray was never a suspect in the night Elizabeth vanished. Her boyfriend, Ricky Ray, was never a suspect
1:28.8	in the eyes of law enforcement. And though the rumor mill cast its doubts about his innocence,
1:35.1	Ricky's alibi was as solid as they come. In fact, he'd been at work alongside Elizabeth's sister
1:42.1	later that night, and it even mentioned their fight to her.
1:46.6	His involvement was virtually impossible.
1:50.3	When a young woman matching Elizabeth's description was seen in various places from copperous
1:55.9	cove to Garland, Samsoon and Tom searched strip clubs, massage parlors, and stopped sex workers to see if they had any
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