Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

When Father Patrick Ryan disappeared from Denver City, Texas on December 21st, 1981, his congregants thought he’d gone to help someone or was called away to Plains, the other Yoakum County town where he was priest. By Christmas Day, however, after missing three Masses, they were worried and reported Father Ryan missing. Meanwhile, 85 miles to the southeast, police detectives in Odessa were investigating a mystery of their own – the murder of a John Doe whose body was found in a seedy, highway side motel.

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 Austin Chronicle article “Who Killed Father Ryan?” by Jordan Smith, Texas Court of Appeals documents, 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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Almost immediately upon the San Antonio Police taking to social media to try and get the word out about missing child Lina Sardar Khil, things got ugly. Completely fabricated details about what happened that supported bigoted theories, victim blaming, and unhinged conspiracy theories that had everyone from the founder of Eagles Flight Advocacy & Outreach to the assistant to United States Senator from Texas John Cornyn in on...something never fully fleshed out. But things got even scarier as Lina’s father was accosted and almost assaulted, more than once, and as YouTube influencers and TikTokers faked volunteering for searches to create content and stalk those involved in the effort. Part 2 of 2.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Lina Sardar Khil, please call the San Antonio Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit at (210)207-7660, Crime Stoppers of San Antonio at (210)224-7867, or the FBI’s San Antonio field office at (210)225-6741

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The New York Times, The San Antonio News-Express, ValleyCentral.com, ksat.com, people.com, and kxan.com were used as sources for this episode

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The Sardar Khils came to San Antonio, Texas from the Khost Province of Afghanistan in 2019, after being granted a special visa by the United States. Thanks to a supportive and uplifting Afghan refugee community there, the family landed on their feet and their lives seemed to be heading in the right direction, a good direction. On December 20th, 2021, however, Riaz and Zarmeena Sardar Khil were met with a tragedy far worse than living in fear in their homeland, when their three-year-old daughter Lina vanished. Though they responded to this crisis fairly well, the San Antonio Police failed to find so much as a trace of the missing little girl. Part 1 of 2.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Lina Sardar Khil, please call the San Antonio Police Department’s Missing Persons Unit at (210)207-7660, Crime Stoppers of San Antonio at (210)224-7867, or the FBI’s San Antonio field office at (210)225-6741

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The New York Times, Texas Monthly’s article “An Afghan Family Came to San Antonio Seeking a Safer Future. Then Their Child Went Missing.” by Bekah McNeel, The San Antonio News-Express, ValleyCentral.com, ksat.com, people.com, and kxan.com were used as sources for this episode

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The investigation into Mary Lou Morris’s October 12th, 2000 murder was going nowhere for Harris County Texas Sheriff’s Office detectives. All the physical evidence had literally gone up in flames, which was perhaps the biggest clue – that her killer either planned the terrible crime carefully or had plenty of time after to cover their tracks. Finding a motive was damn near as impossible. Mary Lou’s daughter Marilyn was 25 years old at the time, and vividly remembers the day her mother went missing and her smoldering car was found. She noticed plenty to cause her to be suspicious of one man then and in the proceeding years, another inserted himself into the case causing further confusion.

Very special thanks to Marilyn for speaking with us for this episode

If you have any information about the murder of Mary Lou Morris or Mary Teresa Morris, please contact the Harris County Sheriff’s Office at (713)274-9100 or Crime Stoppers of Houston at 713-222-TIPS (8477)

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We highly recommend listening to the following podcasts, which were used as sources for this episode: The Murder In My Family’s episode here: spreaker.com/user/11688200/mary-henderson-morris ...
... and The Prosecutors Podcast’s Mary Morris episodes, beginning with part 1: prosecutorspodcast.com/2020/12/15/47-the-murders-of-mary-morris-double-vision

Other sources for this episode are The Baytown Sun, The Houston Chronical, The Austin American-Statesman, and ABCnews.com

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While the investigation into the murder of 48-year-old Mary Lou Morris was just beginning, another woman – 39-year-old Mary Teresa Morris – was killed brutally. Though there was far more evidence to be had in Mary Teresa’s case, Harris County Sheriff’s Office Detectives came up empty handed. As they investigated the usual suspect – Mary Teresa’s husband – another seemingly good suspect emerged, one who seemed to have it out for the victim. While potential motive was there, however, clues tying either man to the scene of the crime were virtually nonexistent, no matter what the media lead readers and viewers to believe. Part 2 of 3.

If you have any information about the murder of Mary Lou Morris or Mary Teresa Morris, please contact the Harris County Sheriff’s Office at (713)274-9100 or Crime Stoppers of Houston at 713-222-TIPS (8477)

You can support gone cold and listen ad-free at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcast Find us on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram by using @gonecoldpodcast and on YouTube at: youtube.com/c/gonecoldpodcast

We highly recommend listening to the following podcasts, which were used as sources for this episode: The Prosecutors Podcast’s Mary Morris episodes, beginning with part 1: prosecutorspodcast.com/2020/12/15/47-the-murders-of-mary-morris-double-vision ...
...and The Murder In My Family’s episode here: spreaker.com/user/11688200/mary-henderson-morris

Other sources for this episode are The Baytown Sun, The Houston Chronical, The Austin American-Statesman, and ABCnews.com #JusticeFroMaryLouMorris #JusticeForMaryTeresaMorris

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On October 12th, 2000, 48-year-old Mary Morris left her Baytown, Texas home headed for work. Later that afternoon, when her husband discovered she’d never made it, he reported her missing and went searching alongside his stepdaughter. At 5 PM that day, Mary’s car was found smoldering after having been set afire. The day of Mary Lou Morris’s funeral, October 16th, 2000, another woman was discovered dead in her vehicle in northwest Houston, about 37 miles away. A connection between these two heinous crimes, perhaps, would have never been theorized if it weren’t for the fact that the second woman’s name was also Mary Morris. Part 1 of 2.

If you have any information about the murder of Mary Lou Morris or Mary Teresa Morris, please contact the Harris County Sheriff’s Office at (713)274-9100 or Crime Stoppers of Houston at 713-222-TIPS (8477)

You can support gone cold and listen ad-free at patreon.com/gonecoldpodcast

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Sources for this episode include The Baytown Sun, The Houston Chronical, The Austin American-Statesman, and ABCnews.com

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Fort Worth, Texas in the 1970s was a stomping ground for killers. In February of that year, 25-year-old June Ward was brutally murdered and thrown on the side of West Fuller. While June’s case hardly got the press and investigative effort she deserved, a slaying that occurred in the summer got much less. On June 4th, 1977, workers cleaning up at Sycamore Park south of downtown found the body of 31-year-old Ora Lee Prescott. After quickly identifying who they thought her killer was and then failing to produce sufficient evidence to charge him, the Fort Worth Police simply gave up, leaving her casefile to collect dust, by all indications, for 45 years now. Tragically, Ora Lee’s daughter, too, was slain by a serial rapist and two-time convicted murderer almost 20 years after her mother.

If you have any information about the unsolved murder of Ora Lee Prescott, please contact the Fort Worth Police Cold Case Unit at (817)392-4307 or email [email protected]

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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, The Mansfield News-Mirror, The Washington Post, The LA Times, and passive aggressively redacted police reports were used as sources for this episode.

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Detectives had few leads in the April 11th, 1976, slaying of 38-year-old Joyce Packey Stein. But they did have a weirdo, the victim’s boyfriend Dr. Gary Ferris. Perhaps prematurely satisfied with the alibis of other persons of interest, particularly Joyce’s abusive ex-husband Stanley, the Terrell Hills Police and Bexar County Sheriff’s Office put on their blinders and pursued Dr. Gary with fervor. But was the man’s odd behavior simply come from his inability to cope with his girlfriend’s brutal murder by gunshot? Part 3 of 3.

If you have any information about the 1976 murder of Lillian Joyce Packey Stein, please contact the Terrell Hills Police Department at (210) 824-1009

Special thanks to the Terrell Hills Police Department and Sgt. Gutierrez

If you are being abused, please get help and contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233 or visit thehotline.org You can also get help by texting START to 88788 from your cellphone

The San Antonio Express, The San Antonio News, and police records were used as sources for this episode.

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38-year-old Joyce Packey Stein was found lying in a pool of blood on April 12th, 1976. As Terrell Hills and San Antonio PDs began investigating the murder scene and collecting interviews alongside the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office, Joyce’s ex-husband Stanley and boyfriend Dr. Ferris become suspicious to police for their odd actions and behaviors. When a so-called “little black book” is found, it creates problems for Detectives as they pursue many leads and eventually leads to a free for all feast of the imagination for local tabloid-style newspapers – the only kind that seems to have existed in San Antonio at the time. Part 2 of 3.

If you have any information about the 1976 murder of Lillian Joyce Packey Stein, please contact the Terrell Hills Police Department at (210) 824-1009

Special thanks to the Terrell Hills Police Department and Sgt. Gutierrez

If you are being abused, please get help and contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233 or visit thehotline.org You can also get help by texting START to 88788 from your cellphone

The San Antonio Light, The San Antonio Express, The San Antonio News, and police records were used as sources for this episode.

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In the moonlight hours of April 11th, 1976, gunshots rang out in the small, suburban town of Terrell Hills, Texas. Many heard or were awakened by the terrifying commotion, and while some might have believed there was some trouble at the nearby bar, the shots actually occurred in a home there. The home of 38-year-old Joyce Packey Stein, who was found the following day lying in a pool of blood. Divorced the previous year after a long and abusive marriage, Joyce was no stranger to tragedy. She’d seen plenty in her short life. But who would want her dead? According to newspaper articles written by hack reporters foaming at the mouth to get creative off someone else’s tragedy, there were plenty of people. Part 1 of 3.

If you have any information about the 1976 murder of Lillian Joyce Packey Stein, please contact the Terrell Hills Police Department at (210) 824-1009

Special thanks to the Terrell Hills Police Department and Sgt. Gutierrez

If you are being abused, please get help and contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 800-799-7233 or visit thehotline.org

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