The Kidnapping & Killing of Kim Nguyen Part 2: Nightmares

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

As the search for 8-year-old Kim Nguyen continued a week after his disappearance, the Garland Police still coordinated the efforts but had begun concentrating on the investigation. After releasing a lead that likely would have borne better results had it been released the day Kim went missing, the very day the information was made public in fact, the unthinkable happened. The boy’s body was found many miles away in the neighboring city of Mesquite. The cops never got close to making an arrest. Part 2 of 2.

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The Dallas Morning News, D Magazine's Article "Did This Creep Really Kill Ashley Estell?" by Jacque Hilburn, choa.org/parent-resources/orthopedics/why-kids-bones-are-different, and WFAA Channel 8 News were used as sources for this episode.

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0:00.0	The Gone Cole podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion
0:06.9	is advised.
0:10.0	The diligence and determination in which Garland, Texas, locals searched for eight-year-old
0:16.5	Kim Noen after he vanished on the morning of July 18, 1993, kept the boys' family from
0:23.6	sinking into a hopeless darkness, if only just barely.
0:29.4	A week after Kim went missing, some folks were still putting in 14-hour days to find
0:35.4	him.
0:36.8	Many wore a t-shirt bearing his photograph and the phone number for the Garland Police
0:41.3	Department, of which about 350 were handed out by Vietnamese community leaders.
0:48.8	On Sunday, July 25, seven days since Kim was last seen, the Garland Police Command post
0:56.0	was no longer in operation, but policemen Steve Frazier had been assigned as co-ordinator
1:02.2	of the continued search efforts.
1:05.1	Though it now consisted only of volunteers, as the cops concentrated on investigating
1:10.4	tips and carefully patrolling the area, officers were instructed to respond immediately to any
1:17.3	call having to do with the Kim Noen case.
1:21.9	While Noen family neighbors combed through areas where they hoped to find the eight-year-old
1:27.1	hiding, each volunteer breathed in deeply and held it as they turned over large items
1:33.1	like discarded sheets of plywood, or as they came upon something in the tall brush that
1:38.8	didn't belong.
1:40.8	Each time they breathed that quickly and heavily when they discovered they had not come across
1:46.2	the boy's body.
1:48.3	Everyone wanted to find Kim Noen, they just didn't want to find him dead.
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