The Slaying of Doris Rivers and the DNA Debacle

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime

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🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

On November 11th, 1970, Veteran’s Day, the bloody body of Doris Lorene Rivers was found in her El Paso apartment by her sister and 5-year-old son. Though the police were able to identify a suspect early in the initial investigation, the District Attorney refused to indict the men due to lack of evidence. The case was buried in El Paso Police’s cold case files for 43 years until, in 2013, Doris’s granddaughter phoned the department for information on the case. A suspect was again identified...but justice, still, was not served. Because of the nature of this particular failure, it likely never will be.

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0:26.8	episode. The Gone Cold Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter.
0:33.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:35.0	In El Paso, Texas on Wednesday, November 11th, 1970, Veterans Day, military units from Fort Bliss and other installments
0:47.0	marched the city's downtown streets in honor of each other, those who served before them, and soldiers to come.
0:55.2	Escorted by the El Paso Police and the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, the Army,
1:00.9	Navy, and the Marines were represented.
1:04.0	Proudly joining them were local school district ROTC units who provided demonstrations of line
1:11.5	formations and drills.
1:14.6	Several high school marching bands accompanied the 62nd Army marching band as martial music
1:20.3	echoed off the downtown buildings.
1:23.0	Flots featuring groups such as the Disabled American Veterans
1:28.0	and the Retired Officers Association slowly strolled the streets,
1:32.0	passing a bare-headed crowd, their hats in hand out of respect for the veteran's service.
1:39.0	Thousands filled downtown El Paso for the parade on the warm and sunny day.
1:46.0	The children gawking at the real life war weapons, tactical demonstrations, and enormous missiles
1:52.2	on display through the desert city streets.
1:56.2	The day of celebration likely ended for most El Paso residents without a hitch, drastically
2:02.4	less eventful than the festivities they had spent the late
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