The Slaying of Susan Leigh Wolfe

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On Wednesday, January 9th, 1980, in the North Loop neighborhood of Austin, a man witnessed a young woman’s abduction. The following day, the body of that woman, 25-year-old University of Texas student Susan Leigh Wolfe, was found slain in an alley more than 4 miles away. Because the witness to the abduction was in the auto business, he was able to give Austin Police Detectives what might have been the best vehicle description the department had ever seen. But it didn’t matter; though the car had been seen by folks in the neighborhood before, as well as elsewhere in town, it was apparently never seen again. Susan Wolfe’s murder case went cold. When Austin Police pinned a few of their murders on Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Elwood Toole, murders they could not have committed, the witness in Susan’s case had made it virtually impossible to pin her murder on them, luckily. But unfortunately, her case faded into obscurity as the years and decades passed.

If you have any information about the murder of Susan Leigh Wolfe, please contact the Austin Police Cold Case & Missing Persons Unit through the department’s homicide tipline at (512)477-3588 or by calling the capital area crime stoppers hotline at (512)472-8477

To show your support for Fort Worth cold case victims and their families, please consider joining Thaw the Cold Cases on April 29th, 2023 in the city’s downtown. For more information, go to: https://fb.me/e/2ek81RvoO

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The Austin American-Statesman, Austin Monthly, Steven Alan Thomas court appeal documents, The Lucas Report, and Fox7 Austin were used as sources for this episode.

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0:00.0	If you've been listening to Gone Cold for a while, you might have heard me talk about
0:05.8	the fact that the city of Fort Worth has around 1,000 unsolved and cold cases dating back
0:12.8	to 1959.
0:15.2	But there are hundreds of thousands of folks in and around Koutown who have no idea.
0:22.2	To help raise awareness, which will hopefully lead to more advocacy and funding for the
0:27.3	Fort Worth Police cold case support group, several individuals have joined together to organize
0:33.4	an event called Thal the Cold Cases.
0:37.2	At 1 p.m. on Saturday, April 29, 2023, advocates, family members of victims, and others will
0:44.9	meet at the Tarant County Courthouse, located at 100 Weatherford Street, and walk approximately
0:51.6	one mile to where the Fort Worth Police's cold case unit is located, 1,000 Calvert Street.
0:59.5	There will be plenty of free parking on the blocks surrounding the Courthouse, and relatively
1:04.8	cheap paylots nearby as well.
1:08.5	If you are able, please mark your calendar and come out to show your support.
1:13.6	No matter how old or how cold, the victims of these unsolved homicides and missing
1:19.1	persons' cases and their families deserve justice.
1:24.0	We'll provide a link to the Facebook events page for Thal the cold cases in the show
1:29.1	notes.
1:30.1	Thanks y'all, and I hope to see you there.
1:33.4	Now onto the episode.
1:36.5	The Gone Cold Podcast may contain violent or graphic subject matter, listener discretion
1:41.4	is advised.
1:44.6	The Lucas report is a document released in April 1986 by then Texas Attorney General Jim
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