"...could one person have killed all these women searching for that answer feels like jumping into the Vortex of a tornado and trying to pick out the truth as mere coincidence is mixed with the relevant similarities and fax swirling around you so you wait until the dust settles and the air is still as you plot the details of each case on paper you can clearly see the damage left by a terrible storm that swept through the lives of the victims' families and friends more than 35 years later they're still waiting for answers still waiting for justice still waiting for peace at the end of 1984 the southwest side of Fort Worth Texas was the epicenter of this storm but it's tendrils stretched over months and across boundaries and county lines as my colleagues and I started sifting through a mountain of cold cases from North Texas we saw patterns emerge that pointed to the real possibility of a serial killer I want to be clear though we don't think all the cases from this area and this time period are connected we looked at dozens of unsolved murders before we began to narrow the criteria and identify specific patterns echoed among we weren't the first to see those patterns police have analyzed them for years but without DNA proof and definitive evidence it would be a mistake to declare with certainty that one person committed multiple murders in fact when these murders happened police at first emphatically declared that they weren't connected the investigators who inherited these cold cases have benefited from the clarity of hindsight and like them we now know that more than..."

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