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Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

The Murder of Kathleen Suckley Part 1: Kathy’s Story

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.61.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Kathleen Schleicher, better known as Kathy, grew up in both a Los Angeles suburb and later, a beach town 60 miles south of California’s most popular city. She was the youngest of the four children born to her parents and the only girl. Her childhood was normal; in junior high and high school, Kathy was athletic and became somewhat fashion obsessed, something that eventually landed her in the glitz and glamour of LA. There, she met someone, got married, became Kathy Suckley, and had two boys of her own before ending up in Corpus Christi, Texas, where her new husband’s family lived. After things between the couple soured, and after splitting up, Kathy struggled a bit to raise her boys on her own but was making it happen. In 1993, after living in Corpus Christi less than a year, the unthinkable happened. Kathy was murdered in her own apartment. Part 1 of ?

Special thanks to Lisa, Kyle, Betty, and Kim for your contributions to this episode and for continuing to seek justice for Kathy.

You can find Kathleen Suckley’s Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/JusticeForKathleenSuckley

If you have any information about the murder of Kathleen Ellen Suckley, now is the time to come forward so her loved ones can finally see justice for her.

Tips can be submitted to the Texas Rangers by calling 1-800-346-3243 or through their cold case website.

You can find Kathy’s webpage there at https://www.dps.texas.gov/coldCase/Home/Details/65

To be eligible for a reward, you can call the Texas Crime Stoppers hotline at 1-800-252-TIPS (8477). All tips provided there are done so anonymously, and tipsters are provided a tip number instead of using a name.

Please donate to help get #JusticeForLeonLaureles at gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorial

You can help get #JusticeForBrittanyMcGlone by contributing to the reward fund by calling the Wood County Crime Stoppers at (903) 850-9060.

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The Corpus Christi Caller Times and kiiiTV.com were used as sources for this episode.

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0:00.0

The Goncol podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion

0:06.2

is advised.

0:09.6

Located about 150 miles southeast of San Antonio on the Texas coast, Corpus Christi is

0:17.0

perhaps best known for its expansive oil industry, or possibly the beach.

0:24.4

It isn't Houston or Dallas, cities with well-known Texas true-crime tales, such as the

0:31.0

candy man or the assassination of a president.

0:35.7

Corpus Christi, to many Texans and perhaps an overwhelming majority of those who live

0:41.0

outside the state who have even heard of it, is an unassuming place not known for cold

0:46.9

blooded and senseless, violent crime.

0:50.6

But there seems to be something in the proverbial water in the city that translates from Latin

0:55.9

to English as the body of Christ.

0:59.6

Many of Texas's most horrific crimes have taken place in Corpus Christi.

1:05.7

The early 1990s alone there saw a seemingly endless flow of news reports involving stabbings,

1:13.2

some fatal, with motives ranging from squabbles between roommates, to gang territory disputes,

1:20.7

to cocaine-fueled psychosis.

1:24.2

But for the loved ones of Corpus Christi's unsolved homicides, the violence is grief-inducing

1:30.2

and haunting, with no clear end in sight.

1:34.6

For them the victim's murder feels forgotten, and they might feel absolutely powerless

1:39.8

to change that, or any other outcome that might provide their loved one justice, and

1:46.0

them maybe some semblance of peace.

1:50.0

The friends and family of 33-year-old Gary Gillette and 24-year-old Stephanie Smith Gillette,

1:57.1

victims of a savage double murder by knife and hatchet as they slept in 1985, continued

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