The Shooting of Suzanne Hummel

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

On the morning of November 13, 1992, Suzanne Marie Hummel, a 39-year-old mother of two, parked in the busy lot of Rice Epicurean Market at Kirby and West Alabama in Houston, a familiar spot she used to wait before work. While eating breakfast in her car, she was approached by a woman demanding her purse. Within seconds, a .22-caliber shot tore through Suzanne’s arm and chest, and the assailant fled, vanishing into morning traffic and leaving her fighting for her life.

Suzanne managed to drive forward and crash into a nearby bus shelter, drawing the attention of witnesses. Before losing consciousness forever, she gave one vital clue.

Houston Police were stunned. A broad-daylight murder in a high-traffic shopping hub bordering River Oaks should have come with witnesses and leads. Instead, detectives were left with a scattered purse, a single gunshot, and the possibility of a waiting getaway vehicle. Whether the killer acted alone remained uncertain.

Today, Suzanne’s case remains open and unsolved. Police believe someone did see something that morning. They just haven’t spoken yet.

If you have any information about the murder of Suzanne Marie Hummel, please contact the Houston Police Department’s Homicide Division Cold Case unit at (713) 308-3600 or Crime Stoppers at (713) 222-8477.

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0:00.0	Gone Cold Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter. Listener discretion is advised.
0:08.7	The air was cool in Houston on a morning in November of 1992. A quiet chill hung over the Rice Epicurean Market parking lot at Kirby and West Alabama, a place most people believed
0:23.9	nothing bad was likely to happen, especially in broad daylight.
0:29.1	Before the rush of the day peaked, before the sun burned off the haze, a woman sat in her car
0:35.9	eating breakfast.
0:40.5	She had somewhere to be, responsibilities waiting on her, and people counting on her to get there. But she had time, a little, and she
0:47.3	chose to take a few minutes for herself, parked in a place she'd come to trust. That small
0:53.9	sliver of morning peace was the last thing
0:57.2	she would ever choose. The woman had driven into Houston from Richmond, about 30 miles to the
1:04.5	southeast, as she did every weekday. Working in the city meant making concessions, beating traffic, stretching the morning hours,
1:14.7	finding someplace safe to wait until she could get inside the office. She had picked up breakfast
1:20.9	at a fast food restaurant near Kirby and the South Freeway, then crossed over to the grocery
1:26.8	store parking lot.
1:28.7	It was something she did regularly, an action not designed for safety necessarily.
1:35.0	Rather, it was simply a routine.
1:38.1	But as she sat in her car that morning, the unthinkable happened.
1:53.5	Yeah. The Unthinkable happened. It was 7.30 a.m. on Friday, November 13, 1992.
2:00.4	Suzanne Marie Hummel, a divorced single mother of two girls, sat inside her 1988 Ford Taurus,
2:08.6	eating her Burger King breakfast, drinking coffee, and maybe reading or applying makeup
2:14.6	before heading across the street to Don Brelzford Insurance Agency,
2:19.3	where she worked as a certified customer service representative.
2:23.7	The agency didn't allow employees in before 8 a.m., and she didn't have a key.
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