The Disappearance of Patty Vaughan Part 3

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 28 April 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

As Patty’s family searched for her, a trial was taking place far away in Lubbock. It was a murder case with no body, but because their was blood evidence and other circumstantial evidence, it resulted in convictions. Patty Vaughan’s case arguably has more circumstantial evidence. Also, things were tense between Patty’s family and her estranged husband JR, resulting in assaults, one, perhaps, more understandable than the other. The search for Patty and the longing for justice has taken its toll on her family, and also taken a toll on former Bexar County Sheriff’s Office Investigator Adrian Ramirez, who worked the case as a young crime scene technician and again as a seasoned cold case detective.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Patty Vaughan, please contact the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office at 210-335-6000.

If you’re experiencing domestic abuse, please get help by calling the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-SAFE, or 800-799-7233. You can also text “start,” S-T-A-R-T to 88788 or visit thehotline.org

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0:00.0	Gone Cold Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter. Listener discretion is advised.
0:09.0	After becoming ill at a friend's party in Lubbock, Texas, on May 13, 1991, Roger Dunn, who went by Scott, vanished.
0:19.0	Upon his father reporting him missing, the Lubbock police visited his apartment
0:24.0	where they were met by his live-in girlfriend, Leisha Hamilton. She claimed to have come home from work
0:30.7	to find Scott gone, and also to find that a large portion of carpet was missing from beneath
0:36.4	the couch. When police searched the rest of the apartment, they found that a large portion of carpet was missing from beneath the couch.
0:40.5	When police searched the rest of the apartment,
0:45.0	they found that a large piece of carpet had also been cut out in the bedroom and then replaced with the carpet taken from under the couch.
0:49.5	Underneath that, police found blood-soaked carpet padding.
0:56.2	The baseboards looked as though they'd been washed of blood as well. Luminal later fluoresed on those spots, and on a massive portion of two
1:04.1	walls, on which cleaning motions and spatters glowed in the dark. Something terrible had taken place there.
1:12.8	To Scott's father, Leisha implicated a man who lived in an apartment near them named Tim Smith,
1:19.0	who had fallen in love with her.
1:21.7	When they went to question Tim, investigators discovered he was moving.
1:26.6	They found and confiscated a roll of duct tape he'd attempted
1:30.3	to hide from them, which was later shown to be consistent with duct tape used to hold down the patch
1:36.3	of carpet at Scott and Leisha's place. The cops had put two and two together, but what they didn't
1:43.3	have was a body.
1:46.1	Frustrated with the fact that the district attorney was unwilling to take the case,
1:51.2	Scott's father contacted the VDoc Society, a group founded by forensic experts to assist
1:57.5	law enforcement agencies with cold cases.
2:05.5	It would take some time, but the organization resurrected Scott's case.
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