The Murder of Cheryl Ann Callaway at the Forum 303 Mall

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

One detective called the slaying of Cheryl Ann Callaway “the most vicious murder in Arlington’s history.” On January 30th, 1974, just months before she was to be married, 18-year-old Cheryl’s life was taken. The murder was brutal and unimaginable, and the killer, it seemed, came out of nowhere. No one who knew Cheryl could imagine who would have a reason to kill the young women; she had no enemies. Revelations in the case eventually came but either it was too late, evidence to support the new leads was scarce, or detectives working the case just didn’t buy it. After many lines of investigation, including inquiries into several well-known and lesser-known killers, Cheryl’s case went cold and remains unsolved.

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0:00.0	The Gone Coal Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter.
0:04.9	Listener discretion is advised.
0:08.5	In October of 2007, demolition began on Arlington on Arlington, Texas's festival marketplace, a mall that opened in 1971 under another name, Forum 303.
0:21.0	Located in the city's far east, the Forum 303 3. square feet of shopping space, state-of-the-art movie theaters, and a large carousel, the most popular
0:36.8	attraction for children.
0:39.5	Fort Worth Judge Bill Harris, who was an Arlington police officer in the 1970s, worked as a security guard
0:46.4	at the mall for extra income when he was off duty.
0:50.6	He shared his disappointment with what Forum 303 had become in the years since he worked there.
0:57.0	Once a quote nice place to shop or hang out, by the time it was renamed Festival Marketplace in 1998, the mall had long been known
1:06.7	as a not so desirable place for shopping families.
1:11.4	Theft, drug activity, and violence invaded Forum 303 and never left.
1:17.8	Homicide too became something of a commonality.
1:22.0	In 1988, Deborah Jane Rutledge was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death in a field just east of the structure.
1:30.0	A few years later, when Michael Levy attempted to stop four teenage shoplifers from leaving
1:36.2	the mall in 1991, he was shot in the back and killed.
1:41.4	The 34-year-old man had been married just days before.
1:46.0	This murder in particular was a black mark on Forum 303's reputation, and slowly but surely, high-end retailers began closing locations there.
1:56.9	In 1994, just outside the mall's Dillard's Clearance Center, a drug dealer gone bad resulted in the deaths of two men, both shot, one
2:06.3	run over with a car after suffering the gunshot wound. One of the most shocking and senseless murders, however, took place at Forum 303 just before Judge Bill Harris began working security there as an off-duty policeman, when the mall was new and virtually crime-free, considered safe,
2:26.9	18-year-old Cheryl Ann Callaway was savagely slain in the parking lot there. On August 6th, 1955, Billy and Elna Calloway welcomed their second child into the world.
3:02.4	They named her Cheryl Ann. second child into the world.
3:02.5	They named her Cheryl Ann.
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