The Murders of Regina Grover & David Larson

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

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🗓️ 12 December 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

A few days before Christmas in 1984, 26-year-old David Dale Larson and 21-year-old Regina Suzanne Grover went out for a dinner date at The Keg Restaurant and Bar off Camp Bowie in Fort Worth, Texas. Service industry workers themselves, they knew folks at The Keg, and those folks saw Regina and David leave around 11 PM. It was the last time they were seen alive. The following afternoon, David Larson’s roommate discovered his nude and badly bludgeoned body in their apartment just southwest of downtown Fort Worth. Minutes later, a discovery was made in northwest Fort Worth. On the bank of a river under a bridge, covered with illegally dumped furniture, was the body of Regina Grover. She’d been strangled to death. Police lumped Regina’s murder in with several others that would eventually become known to locals as “The 80s Murders,” and David’s murder, which separated the case from the others in a major way, was often left out. Detectives never got a break on Regina and David’s case, but decades later, when a 1974 murder was solved, similarities never before noticed became hard to ignore.

If you have any information about the murders of David Dale Larson and Regina Suzanne Grover, please contact the Fort Worth Police Cold Case Unit at (817)392-4307, or you can provide information by emailing [email protected].

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0:00.0	The Gone Cold Podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter.
0:05.4	Listener discretion is advised.
0:08.8	In Fort Worth, Texas, the unsolved homicides of several women and girls in the 1970s and 1980s were lumped into two separate categories.
0:19.9	Most are either theorized as or known to have been abductions.
0:25.5	The first set, as they'd eventually be considered, began with the rape, beating, and strangulation
0:32.7	murder of 38-year-old Mildred May on February 4, 1967, followed by 21-year-old Becky Martin on February 7,
0:42.9	1973, who most likely also died of strangulation, but since her remains were skeletonized,
0:50.6	there was no definitive way for medical examiner Felix quotes to be sure.
0:56.6	On February 17, 1974, 17-year-old Carla Walker was abducted, raped, and strangled to death,
1:04.9	and the crimes became known as the February slangs, dubbed so by local newspapers.
1:13.2	But they weren't the last to fit into the category, which was a sort of working theory of a serial rapist and killers preferred time to
1:19.3	strike. On February 18, 1977, 25-year-old June Ward was found slain, also strangled to death and sexually assaulted.
1:31.0	But unlike the other cases, June was mutilated with the axe end of a weapon thought to have been a carpenter's hammer.
1:39.8	Though she wasn't killed in February, but instead on January 23, 1978, 17-year-old
1:47.7	Leisha McGee's murder was classified by some in the press as part of the so-called February
1:53.8	slings.
1:55.2	The killing matching only the murder of June Ward, in its sheer brutality, perhaps. Leisha was beaten, stabbed multiple
2:04.0	times in the abdomen, and her throat deeply slashed. On February 4, 1983, 26-year-old Christy
2:12.8	Tower was abducted as she left her serving job at Billy Bob's honky-tunk. She was then
2:19.7	bound at the wrists with electrical wire before being strangled to death with the same.
2:26.4	Rocks and brush had been placed over her body. All but one of these cases, that of Carla Walker,
2:35.4	remain unsolved.
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