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Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

The Murder of Father Patrick Ryan Part 1: Room 126

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

When Father Patrick Ryan disappeared from Denver City, Texas on December 21st, 1981, his congregants thought he’d gone to help someone or was called away to Plains, the other Yoakum County town where he was priest. By Christmas Day, however, after missing three Masses, they were worried and reported Father Ryan missing. Meanwhile, 85 miles to the southeast, police detectives in Odessa were investigating a mystery of their own – the murder of a John Doe whose body was found in a seedy, highway side motel.

If you have any information about the 1981 murder of Father Patrick Joseph Ryan, please call the Odessa Police Department at (432)335-496 or Odessa Crime Stoppers at (432)333-8477

Please consider donating to the go fund me for Leon Laureles. You can find it at: gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorial

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The Odessa American, The Austin Chronicle article “Who Killed Father Ryan?” by Jordan Smith, Texas Court of Appeals documents, and Scott Lomax’s book “The Case of James Harry Reyos: A Wrongful Conviction Revealed” were used as sources for this episode.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

I've got a few things to talk about before we start this episode.

0:06.8

First, for a brief period of time, episodes will be coming out irregularly and not on Sunday

0:13.6

nights as they usually do.

0:16.5

We've got a lot of irons on the fire, so please bear with us for just a little while

0:21.2

longer.

0:22.2

Thanks.

0:24.0

Next, the GoFundMe our friend Arlene set up to help get answers in the 1996 execution-style

0:31.4

murder of her uncle, Leon Leralis, recently hit the halfway mark.

0:37.1

If you are able, please consider making a donation and helping Arlene reach her goal.

0:44.1

Things are happening and it's more important right now than it ever has been to keep things

0:49.0

moving.

0:50.6

We appreciate any donation you can give, and Arlene appreciates it even more.

0:56.5

Finally, I'm going to hazard a guess and say that a vast majority of you folks love Girl

1:02.4

Scout Cookies.

1:03.9

Well, a very special little girl we know is trying to make it to Girl Scout Diva Camp

1:09.7

this year.

1:11.3

If you're in the market for some Girl Scout Cookies, please consider clicking on the link

1:15.6

in the show notes and placing your order from there.

1:19.6

You can even get the new Raspberry rallies this year's online exclusive cookie.

1:24.8

And if you get nine boxes or more, shipping is half off.

1:28.8

If you happen to place an order, send a screenshot of your invoice to GoneColdPodcast at gmail.com

1:35.6

and we'll send you some GoneCold swag as a thank you.

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