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On the very day Fort Worth police detectives and officials met to form a special homicide

task force to investigate the disappearances and murders of Catherine Davis, Cindy Heller,

Angela Ewert, and Sarah Koshka, another victim was added to the list.

At about 11 p.m. on Wednesday, January 9, 1985, the body of a young woman was found in an unincorporated part of Tarrant County, not far from the Fort Worth and Benbrook city limits, alongside railroad tracks in a brushy field.

Fully clothed in a violet-colored jogging suit, police immediately theorized the

apparent homicide victim had not been raped, an educated guess that would later be confirmed.

Not to get ahead of themselves, detectives were most interested in the identity of the woman.

The next day, 20-year-old Lisa Lynn Griffin, who lived with her mother, Levan, at the Indian

Creek Apartments in Fort Worth's Westover Hills neighborhood, was reported missing.

She hadn't been heard from since Tuesday evening, more than 24 hours before, when she phoned work to see if

they needed her to come in. They didn't need her that night as business was slow, and the next day

she didn't show up for her shift. Later that day, Lisa's 1977 Blue and White Ford Pinto was found

in the parking lot of a shopping strip about a half-mile

east of her home. It didn't take long for authorities to identify the body found by railroad tracks

outside the city as hers. Lisa, a waitress at local nightclub Bustin Luce and receptionist at a local insurance agency,

had been shot once in her head. The bullet later determined to be 22 caliber.

Within a couple days, a 25-year-old man named Timothy Paul Volkmar was charged in the crime.

Long story short, Volkmar was not the guy the cops were looking for, but instead was a

convenient suspect with mental health issues who had been taken into custody under what were

likely false pretences.

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