The Kidnapping & Killing of Kim Nguyen Part 1: Without a Trace

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime

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🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

On July 18th, 1993, 8-year-old Kim Nguyen woke up in a good, particularly playful mood. After wrestling around with his older brother some, Kim entered the living room of the Nguyen Family home in Garland, Texas and flipped on the television. When his father came to check on him at about 7 AM, however, there was no trace of the little boy, not inside the house or outside. They called the police and informed them that Kim was gone and that there was a detail that might make finding him more difficult than a lot of children. Kim was autistic and chose not to verbally communicate the vast majority of the time. Word got around the boy’s working-class neighborhood fast, and lots of folks showed up to help search. But after the first several days, no sign of the boy could be found. Almost no sign.

If you have any information about the 1993 kidnapping and murder of 8-year-old Kim Nguyen, please call the Garland Police at (972) 485-4840

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0:00.0	The Gone Cole podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion
0:06.6	is advised.
0:09.7	By 1884, Duck Creek, Texas was coming into its own.
0:16.0	They'd recently re-acquired a post-op as by this time, after going almost 11 years
0:21.6	without.
0:23.2	There were a few churches, just as many general stores, and even a district school.
0:29.9	But it was industry that buttered the residents' bread, specifically the corn mill, two grist
0:36.3	mills, and the triple steam cotton jins.
0:40.6	When the Santa Fe and Dallas Greenville railroad lines went in east of Dallas in 1886, however,
0:48.2	they bypassed the small farming community by about a mile.
0:53.4	That same distance to Duck Creek's east, Santa Fe railroad company built a depot, and
0:59.9	just shy of a mile north, the Dallas and Greenville line built theirs.
1:05.6	The economic opportunities the railroads and depots would have brought to the modest town
1:12.0	might have had Duck Creek, located in Northeast Dallas County, on the road to becoming a serious
1:19.1	business hub, like its bustling metropolis neighbor to the southwest.
1:25.6	Residents were not happy and perhaps perceived the logistics giants' decision to do so,
1:32.0	as some kind of slight.
1:34.4	They were especially upset when the following year, after almost the entirety of Duck Creek
1:40.7	went up in flames, their post-opus was moved to the small city, the Santa Fe built around
1:46.6	their depot, Embry.
1:49.6	It's sad that the men in Duck Creek began carrying their pistols and rifles, something
1:55.4	they'd never done before, because in its attempts to incorporate, Embry had allegedly claimed
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