The Slaying of Sherry Ellen Rowland

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In 1982, 20-year-old aspiring model Sherry Ellen Rowland had taken work as a graveyard shift clerk at a 7-Eleven convenience store to supplement her lifestyle in-between modeling gigs. Almost immediately upon starting her shift on November 27th, Sherry began receiving obscene phone calls. Even though a Fort Worth Police Officer began patrolling the store to make sure Sherry was okay, and that the calls were only a bad prank, an unknown assailant entered the store at some point between 2:20 and 3:50 AM, raped, and killed the 20-year-old. Though perpetrators of the incredibly large number of armed robberies ended up on the suspect list, the Fort Worth Police never found Sherry’s killer. Currently, Sherry Rowland’s case is being actively investigated by the Fort Worth Police Cold Case Unit.

If you have any information about the rape and murder of Sherry Ellen Rowland in November of 1982, please contact the Fort Worth Cold Case Unit at (817)392-4308. You can also report information to Tarrant County Crime Stoppers at (817)469-8477.

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0:00.0	The Gone Cold Podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion
0:06.8	is advised.
0:10.1	Larry Jensen, Fort Worth policeman CW Riley, said, should be dead by all rights.
0:17.3	On the afternoon of Thursday, September 18, 1980, a bearded man wearing work clothes and
0:23.7	carrying what Jensen would later describe as a grease rag in his hip pocket, entered
0:29.3	the camp buoy pawn shop.
0:32.1	Calmly and coolly, the man asked the store's employee, Larry Gabbert, if he could take
0:37.7	a look at a 25 caliber semi-automatic pistol from the gun case.
0:43.5	The bearded man liked the weapon, he said, it did just fine.
0:48.5	As Gabbert began filling out the paperwork required to sell the firearm, the man sneakily
0:54.4	loaded the pistol with ammunition from the pawn shop shelves.
0:59.1	Suddenly, in rapid succession, the man fired three times, hitting the pawn shop employee
1:05.1	twice, once in the temple and once near his eye.
1:10.0	Lawrence Jensen, the pawn shop's manager, who was on the telephone with his back turned
1:15.2	when the pistol was discharged, didn't even have time to face the now-armed robber before
1:21.2	he realized he'd been hit in the neck by the third shot.
1:26.2	Looking straight at the trigger-man in shock, Jensen said, you shot me, as the bearded man
1:31.7	fired once more, this time striking him just below his right eye.
1:37.8	Jensen fell to the floor where he saw his coworker and friend also wounded and out-cold.
1:45.5	As Jensen feigned death, the robber emptied the cash register of around $450 and snatched
1:52.4	a tray of diamond rings.
1:55.3	The bearded man then returned to Jensen and shot him dead center in the middle of his
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