The Murder of Cheryl Callaway Part 1: Big City Crime

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

One detective called the slaying of Cheryl Ann Callaway “the most vicious murder in Arlington’s history.” Arlington Police Crimes Against Person Unit Detectives Sgt. Mike Adair and Mike Leyman call it the one that got away. 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…and struck out of a motivation that remains unclear 50 years later. No one who knew Cheryl could imagine who would have a reason to kill the young women; she had no enemies. Arlington Police Detectives Sgt. Adair and Leyman, who still think about the only crime they couldn’t solve together, hit the ground running. Evidence lacked at the scene of the crime, and Leyman and Adair knew at the get-go they were up against a tough case. Part 1 of 2.

Special thanks to former Arlington detectives Mike Leyman and Sgt. Mike Adair for their contributions to this episode, and to our pal Kathleen Barnett for making that happen

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0:47.0	The Gone Cold Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter.
0:51.0	Listener discretion is advised. In October of 2007, 2007, demolition began on Arlington, Texas's festival marketplace,
1:02.4	a mall that opened in the early 1970s under the name Forum
1:06.6	303.
1:08.6	Fort Worth Judge Bill Harris, who was an Arlington police officer in the 1970s, worked as a security guard at the mall for extra income when he was off duty.
1:20.0	In a 2007 article in the local newspaper, the Fort Orstar telegram, Judge Harris shared his disappointment
1:28.0	with what Forum 303 had become in the years since he worked there.
1:33.0	Once a nice place to shop or hang out, he said.
1:37.0	By the time it was renamed Festival Marketplace in 1998,
1:41.0	the mall had long been known as a not so desirable place for shopping families.
1:47.0	Theft, drug activity, and violence pervaded Forum 303 by the late 1980s as the Dallas-Fort Worth Arlington Metroplex
1:57.1	saw a steep rise in crime, and it never left.
2:02.2	Just before Judge Bill Harris began working security there as an off-duty policeman, when
2:08.2	Arlingtonians considered the Forum 303 mall a new and safe place to visit, one of the city's most depraved and
2:16.1	senseless murders took place.
2:19.3	It's a case two former Arlington policemen remember well, and in fact think of often, even after the 50 years
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