Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

On July 18th, 1993, 8-year-old Kim Nguyen woke up in a good, particularly playful mood. After wrestling around with his older brother some, Kim entered the living room of the Nguyen Family home in Garland, Texas and flipped on the television. When his father came to check on him at about 7 AM, however, there was no trace of the little boy, not inside the house or outside. They called the police and informed them that Kim was gone and that there was a detail that might make finding him more difficult than a lot of children. Kim was autistic and chose not to verbally communicate the vast majority of the time. Word got around the boy’s working-class neighborhood fast, and lots of folks showed up to help search. But after the first several days, no sign of the boy could be found. Almost no sign.

If you have any information about the 1993 kidnapping and murder of 8-year-old Kim Nguyen, please call the Garland Police at (972) 485-4840

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Dallas Morning News, and WFAA Channel 8 News were used as sources for this episode.

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The 1994 trial of Michael Nawee Blair for the abduction and murder of 7-year-old Ashley Nicole Estell was fought hard by both sides. Though the prosecution came out victorious and justice seemed to have been served upon Blair’s conviction, it was stripped away years later, when the decision was overturned. Is Michael Blair truly innocent and one of the other two strong suspects responsible for the heinous and unforgivable act? Or, did Blair get away with Ashley’s slaying? Even though justice has yet to be realized, Ashley’s legacy had undoubtedly lived on and helped other prevent pother children from falling victim to depraved people who would hurt them. Part 3 of 3.

If you have any information about the abduction and murder of Ashley Nicole Estell, please contact Texas Crime stoppers by calling 713-222-TIPS, that’s 713-222-8477. You can remain completely anonymous

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CrimeInCharlotte.com, The Dallas Morning News, The Dallas Observer, D Magazine, and The Plano Star-Courier were used as sources for this episode.

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While the Plano Police investigated the abduction and death of 7-year-old Ashley Estell, a strange man with a pertinent criminal history made himself a suspect. Unbeknownst to the grieving and angry residents of the suburb city, along with the rest of North Texas, the cops were building a case against 23-year-old Dallas carpet cleaner and convicted child molester Michael Nawee Blair. When the arrest came 6 days after Ashley was slain, residents were shocked – but upon learning of the man’s disturbing criminal past and his early release from prison, the public’s shock turned to outrage and a campaign against the practices of the Texas justice system got underway. Part 2 of 3.

If you have any information about the abduction and murder of Ashley Nicole Estell, please contact Texas Crime stoppers by calling 713-222-TIPS, that’s 713-222-8477. You can remain completely anonymous

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The Dallas Morning News, The Dallas Observer, KXAS TV, and Robert Riggs’ WFAA Channel 8 News Reporting were used as sources for this episode.

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As Wood County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Captain Mike Chilson continued looking at the 2007 murder of 19-year-old Brittany McGlone, evidence against the prime suspect was stacking up to the point where an arrest seemed imminent. Chilson discovered physical evidence that was hard to ignore and reinterviewed witnesses who’d had some fairly damning recollections of the suspect on that terrible day. By the end of August 2022, Captain Chilson felt he had enough to make an arrest. And so did a Wood County judge. The suspect was found and arrested in Dallas. But 89 days after that arrest, a grand jury decided, seemingly with a nudge from the Wood County DA, that there was not enough evidence. The three-time convicted and violent felon was set free and justice for Brittany McGlone was once again in limbo. To this day, the district attorney has offered no explanation or even placation to Brittany’s family. Part 3 of 3.

If you have any information about the murder of Brittany Danielle McGlone, please contact the Wood County Sheriff’s Office at 903-763-2201 or to be eligible for a cash reward, call Wood County Crime stoppers at 903-763-2274, that’s 903-763-CASH

You can find out more about Brittany’s family’s fight for justice at: facebook.com/justiceforbrittanymcglone

If you are able, please come out to Quitman, Texas on Thursday, May 4th, 2023, on the 16th anniversary of Brittany’s murder, for a vigil and a demand for #JusticeForBrittanyMcGlone. You can find more info here: https://fb.me/e/Zrd72wF5

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

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On Saturday, May 6th, 2023, a day of remembrance will be held for Leon in Brownwood. If you can make it, family and friends will be grateful. Find out more here: https://fb.me/e/4odEB3OH4 and remember, there still is no #JusticeForLeonLaureles

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When a new Wood County Sheriff’s Office Administration took charge in 2021, the new top lawman Sheriff Kelly Cole made good on his promise to conduct an intense investigation into the murder of 19-year-old Brittany McGlone. With Captain Mike Chilson as lead investigator, the renewed investigation began – new interviews, evidence inspection, and scrutiny of suspects got underway. Though none of the prime suspects have been eliminated, the evidence stacked around one far more than the other. Part 2 of 3.

If you have any information about the murder of Brittany Danielle McGlone, please contact the Wood County Sheriff’s Office at 903-763-2201 or to be eligible for a cash reward, call Wood County Crime stoppers at 903-763-2274, that’s 903-763-CASH.

You can find out more about Brittany’s family’s fight for justice at: facebook.com/justiceforbrittanymcglone

If you are able, please come out to Quitman, Texas on Thursday, May 4th, 2023, on the 16th anniversary of Brittany’s murder, for a vigil and a demand for #JusticeForBrittanyMcGlone. You can find more info here: https://fb.me/e/Zrd72wF5

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

Please consider donating to the go fund me for Leon Laureles. You can find it at: gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorial

On Saturday, May 6th, 2023, a day of remembrance will be held for Leon in Brownwood. If you can make it, family and friends will be grateful. Find out more here: https://fb.me/e/4odEB3OH4 and remember, there still is no #JusticeForLeonLaureles You can support gone cold and listen ad-free at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcast

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The Winnsboro News, The Wood County Monitor, The Tyler Morning Telegraph, Brittany’s family, and court documents were used as sources for this episode.

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In Wood County, Texas on May 4th, 2007, Brittany McGlone was murdered, seemingly as she slept, in her boyfriend’s home while everyone who lived in the house was away. Nothing else in the home was disturbed and there were no signs of forced entry. Alibis for everyone who lived in the house were checked out and verified, apparently, but whoever violently bludgeoned Brittany to death most likely had knowledge of the home and the habits of the folks therein. Nineteen-year-old Brittany's killing has devastated her family who struggle to pick up the pieces and who, on top of their uncertainty and grief, were forced to deal with a combative Sheriff’s Office for more than a decade.

If you have any information about the murder of Brittany Danielle McGlone, please contact the Wood County Sheriff’s Office at 903-763-2201 or to be eligible for a cash reward, call Wood County Crime stoppers at 903-763-2274, that’s 903-763-CASH.

You can find out more about Brittany’s family’s fight for justice at: facebook.com/justiceforbrittanymcglone

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

Please consider donating to the go fund me for Leon Laureles. You can find it at: gofundme.com/f/leon-laureles-private-detective-and-memorial

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The Winnsboro News, The Wood County Monitor, The Tyler Morning Telegraph KLTV.com, The HLR Gazette, ktre.com, KLTV.com, The National Organization of Parents of Murdered Children, Brittany’s family, and court documents were used as sources for this episode.

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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

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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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On Thursday, November 27th, 1986, 28-year-old Connie Jane Bibb returned home after a holiday dinner at a friend’s house. It was her senior year at the University of Texas Austin as a special education major, and the religious woman looked forward to a life of teaching and missionary work. But senselessly, her life was cut short. All nine of Connie’s roommates were either attending the Longhorns V. Aggies game on campus, or out of town for the holiday, leaving her alone at the house Thanksgiving night. An intruder broke in, his intentions unknown, and after a violent struggle, Connie Bibb was murdered. It was a time when the cops were doing everything they could to suppress information about the Hyde Park Rapist, endangering North Austin’s female population, and the troubling rise in the city’s crime rate. They could not, of course hide Connie’s killing, but the local media’s attention span turned away quickly, and the case has been seldom reported on since.

If you have any information about the murder of Connie Jane Bibb, 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

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The Austin American-Statesman, Austin Monthly, and Fox7 Austin were used as sources for this episode.

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Nearly a year after the murder of Father Patrick Ryan of Saint William Catholic Church in Denver City, Texas, a confession call came into Albuquerque, New Mexico 911. The confessor had already been interviewed by Odessa Police Detectives and eliminated as a suspect, but frustrated detectives and politically motivated prosecutors were chomping at the bit to close the case. Though the only evidence that this man, 26-year-old James Harry Reyos, had beaten the priest to death at the Sand and Sage Motel in Odessa was his drunken confession, he was convicted of the crime. The problem is, Reyos did not kill Father Ryan. Part 3 of 3.

If you have any information about the 1981 murder of Father Patrick Joseph Ryan, please call the Odessa Police Department at (432)335-496 or Odessa Crime Stoppers at (432)333-8477

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The Odessa American, the article “Who Killed Father Ryan?” by The Austin Chronicle’s Jordan Smith, Michael Hall’s Texas Monthly article “The Apache, the Irish Catholic Priest, and a 40-Year-Old Miscarriage of Justice,” the article “Man who denies murder of Limerick priest moves closer to seeing conviction quashed” by Ann Murphy in The Irish Examiner, NewsWest9.com, and Scott Lomax’s book “The Case of James Harry Reyos: A Wrongful Conviction Revealed” were used as sources for this episode.

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As Odessa Police Detectives investigated the December 21st, 1981 murder of Father Patrick Ryan, violence against other men of the cloth continued in the south and southwest United States, among other places. When a fairly similar attack or slaying of a priest occurred, the cops were on it, but they failed to make a connection every time. Was the violence related or were the holy men simply easy targets for opportunists? Odessa Police Detectives, at least, believed the latter.

If you have any information about the 1981 murder of Father Patrick Joseph Ryan, please call the Odessa Police Department at (432)335-496 or Odessa Crime Stoppers at (432)333-8477

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To hear a detailed account of the Father Reynaldo Rivera murder case, and for many other unsolved cases, check out our friend Eric’s podcast True Consequences. trueconsequences.com

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The Odessa American, The New Mexican, The Olympian, The Tacoma News-Tribune, and Scott Lomax’s book “The Case of James Harry Reyos: A Wrongful Conviction Revealed” were used as sources for this episode.

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