True Crimes

In the spring of 1980,  32-year-old , Dorothy Jane Scott was a single mother living in Stanton, California with her aunt and  four-year-old  son, Shawn. She worked as a secretary at a store in Anaheim called a Swinger's Psych Shop, which specialized in psychedelic items. She was close to her parents who lived in Anaheim and frequently babysat Shawn while Dorothy worked. Dorothy was a devout Christian who regularly attended church. Didn't do a lot of dating and lived on mostly quiet life, working hard and taking care of her son. There was no reason to think anything would ever change until Dorothy received a mysterious phone call one day at work. The unidentified  man,  who called her, claimed that he loved her. And then a moment later proceeded to threaten her. It didn't stop there. As the weeks went by, the same man would call Dorothy repeatedly, not just at work, but at home. He continued to claim he loved  her,  while also threatening to kill her. He would mention her da

Occasionally, when a murder is solved, it brings both a resolution Occasionally, a reckoning. Sometimes the long-awaited answers end up being something you never expected. This was the case for the family of Fawn Cox. On July 26, 1989, and Fawn Cox came home late after finishing Worlds Of Fun in Kansas City. She normally worked until 11:00 p.m. and so it was not unusual for her family to not hear from her as she often went directly to bed when she had to work the next day. Fawn was known to be a normal teenager, one who went to church and stayed out of any trouble. The next morning, Fawn's little sister, 16-year-old, heard Fawn's alarm going off within her  Elisa room , she wasn't getting up or turning it off.  but went in to rouse her sister and shake her awake, but instead, she found her dead. Elisa remembered that she had been gone for a while by the time she had discovered her. Her mother Beverly also came into the  Elisa,  sure that Fawn simply had to still be sleeping

A common statement among the loved ones  of the victims of crimes that become cold cases  is that they thought the cases would never be solved.  But in recent years it appears  that this is less and less the fate for many of these cases  where the trail of information had long run cold  because new advances are capable of digging up clues  which had evaded detection  and leading investigators right to the truth  even in cases that go back multiple decades. One of Texas's oldest cold cases was solved in 2020.  For 46 years the shocking death of Carla Jan Walker  was left unsolved.  February 16th, 1974  was a day of celebration and joy  that took a shocking and tragic turn.  17 year old Carla Walker, a popular cheerleader,  was getting ready for the Valentine's Day dance  at her high school in Fort Worth, Texas.  Described by many to be an outgoing spitfire,  her family was excited to see her off with her date,  her boyfriend Rodney. Rodney McCoy was a year older than Carla.  And

The case we have for you today is Orange County, California's oldest cold case. In 1968, the body of an unknown woman wearing a floral-print blouse, purple pants, loafers, and a costume ring with a large blue stone set in a silver band was found in a drainage ditch near New land Street and Yorktown Avenue in Huntington Beach, California. Three young boys accidentally discovered the troubling crime scene, as they wandered closer to what they realized, was, in fact, a human body. They quickly called the police, who were then dispatched to the scene of a crime that would come to haunt Orange County for decades. The woman's body had no form of identification at all. In fact, it appeared as though the woman had been spotless and left purposefully unidentifiable. But one thing was for certain, the woman had not come to the drainage ditch on her own accord. She had been beaten, assaulted, and her throat cut, yet very little evidence was actually collected from the scene, as almost non

The case we have for you today is that of 19-year-old Deborah Tomlinson from Colorado Springs, Colorado. Deborah Tomlinson was a Grand Junction, Colorado local who had a love for her friends, family, and her horses. At 19, Deborah enrolled in college, as she loved being a student and was noted to be outgoing, and had big plans for her future. As a 19-year-old college student, Deborah managed to afford her own apartment near her Mesa College campus. Living on her own, she was able to truly feel like the adult woman she was gradually becoming. Not to mention, the privacy of starting her own life was exactly what Deborah had always wanted. Unfortunately, living alone wasn't always as safe as Deborah may have hoped. In fact, if Deborah hadn't been alone during the week of Christmas in 1975, perhaps someone would have been able to prevent the horrible tragedy that would occur. Or at the least, someone would have been there as a witness to know the absolute truth of what happened. Al

On June 27, 1983, 11-year-old Julie Fuller was staying with her mother and brother at the Kensington Motor Lodge and Apartments, a motel in Arlington. The energetic and lively young girl went to take out the trash and never came back. The following day, her body was found by construction workers along the banks of the Trinity River, situated in Northeast Fort Worth. Julie had been assaulted in a certain way and her killer left behind DNA samples, the police database CODAS returned no matches. The cold case tormented the Fuller family for decades, especially Lee Fuller, who never gave up looking for his little sister's murderer. In 2018, he finally received the closure that he had dreamed of since he was 13 years old. The Fort Worth Police Department had partnered with Paraben NanoLabs, a company based in Virginia that uses genealogical mapping to track DNA not included in police databases. In February 2018, they managed to create a photo of what Julie's murderer looked like, id