The Murder of Terressa Lynn Vanegas

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On Halloween Eve 2006, 16-year-old Terressa Lynn Vanegas bounced around between friend’s houses. Though she was supposed to spend the night with one of them, those plans fell through unbeknownst to her family. Terressa had other plans, anyway, and the teenager was seen that night by several folks who knew her in her hometown of Dickinson, Texas. But the following day when she didn’t come home from school, Terressa’s family knew something was wrong. Two days later, her body was found in a shallow ditch near her school, Dickinson High. Though there were plenty of witnesses to report last known movements, one person she was seen talking to that night was, apparently, unknown to all of them.

If you have any information about the murder of Terressa Lynn Vanegas, please call the Dickinson Police Department at 281-337-4700 or Galveston County Crime Stoppers at 281-763-8477

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David Lohr’s reporting at CrimeLibrary.org, abc13.com, The Galveston Daily News, and The Houston Chronicle 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
0:06.5	is advised.
0:09.8	Dickinson, Texas is located about 30 miles southeast of the heart of Houston, in northwestern
0:16.5	Galveston County.
0:19.1	After several decades as little more than a quiet agricultural community, producing crops
0:25.0	like potatoes, figs, and sugarcane in the latter quarter of the 19th century, and
0:31.4	into the 20th, Galveston gangsters Sam and Rose Masio, empowered by the enactment of
0:38.1	prohibition in 1920, brought their bootlegging business to town.
0:43.9	In no time, speakeasies, gambling dens, and brothels became Dickinson tourist draws, which
0:51.2	all thrived because the Masio syndicate owned the local politicians and the Galveston
0:56.8	County Sheriff.
0:59.2	Even after prohibition ended, the vice economy in Galveston County continued relatively unfettered,
1:06.3	but the legalization of gambling in Nevada certainly slowed it down.
1:11.4	In fact, the Masio brothers split and headed to the new Sin City to legitimize their business
1:17.8	activities.
1:19.6	They got out just in time.
1:22.2	Throughout the late 1940s and into the 50s, the Texas Rangers began working alongside
1:27.8	other Texas law enforcement agencies at the county level to shut down vice across the
1:33.6	state.
1:35.0	When Paul Hopkins was elected sheriff of Galveston County in 1956, the last holdout of
1:41.6	vice in Texas, he set out to end all illegal businesses there, and with the help of the
1:47.9	Texas Rangers, that's exactly what happened.
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