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The Mysterious & Forgotten Disappearance of Kathy Goad

The Mysterious & Forgotten Disappearance of Kathy Goad

Released Monday, 15th August 2022
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The Mysterious & Forgotten Disappearance of Kathy Goad

The Mysterious & Forgotten Disappearance of Kathy Goad

The Mysterious & Forgotten Disappearance of Kathy Goad

The Mysterious & Forgotten Disappearance of Kathy Goad

Monday, 15th August 2022
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true crime is dedicated to the memory

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of commonwealth of kentucky detective

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glenn f would without whom

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the disappearance of cathy may brownfield

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gold would never have been given

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the attention she deserves

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perhaps the most well known and

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case in fort worth texas

2:02

is the mysterious disappearance of

2:04

three girls

2:06

most often referred to collectively

2:09

as the fort worth missing trio seventeen

2:11

year old rachel truly saw fourteen

2:14

year old renee wilson and nine

2:16

year old julie mosley vanished

2:18

two days before christmas and nineteen

2:20

seventy four leaving not

2:22

a trace of where they went or

2:24

what happened to them the

2:27

witnesses reported seeing the three girls

2:29

that the seminary south shopping center

2:32

on december twenty third in various

2:34

situations both innocuous

2:37

and troubling those accounts

2:39

are considered by many to be questionable

2:41

at best even as rachel's

2:44

car was found their that evenings

2:46

parked outside sears department store

2:50

the day following julie renee

2:52

and rachel's disappearances a

2:54

clue surpassed that only muddied

2:56

the investigative waters a

2:58

letter that claim to be written by rachel

3:01

explaining that the girls just had

3:03

to get away and had traveled to

3:05

houston to do just that they

3:08

be back the letter read in

3:10

about a week the car

3:12

could be found in sears upper parking

3:14

lot the fort worth

3:16

police had insisted from the get go

3:18

that renee rachel and julie

3:21

had just taken off and would be back

3:24

the letter certainly seem to serve the

3:26

specific purpose it's rider had

3:28

in mind to keep them from

3:30

doing any investigating at all

3:33

and at first more alas

3:36

they didn't in a decade

3:38

since this trio went missing however

3:41

private investigators fort worth police

3:43

detectives and countless amateur

3:45

sleuths including family

3:47

members have followed virtually every

3:50

rabbit hole trying to find out what happened

3:52

to them many

3:54

suspects have emerged though it's

3:56

unclear if any have ever been officially

3:58

named as such

4:01

still other than anniversary stories

4:03

and the local newspaper the fort worth

4:05

star telegram talk of the disappearances

4:08

of the girls known as the city's

4:10

missing trio were relegated

4:12

to third hand bar rumor and beauty

4:14

shop gossip

4:17

wild speculation based on

4:19

misunderstood fact at some point

4:21

became more the rule than the exception

4:24

sometimes it seemed outright

4:27

miss troops would come along and

4:29

whether those miss truths were and are

4:31

intended as diversions or

4:34

just sick jokes is anyone's

4:36

guess perhaps

4:38

they're simply creations of board

4:40

but inventive mines whatever

4:43

the case the rumor mill should hardly

4:46

bear the brunt of the blame sporadically

4:49

some new piece of information surfaced

4:52

that at face value look to

4:54

be a previously lost an important

4:56

piece of the puzzle like

4:59

another letter i received by fort worth

5:01

police detectives in december of

5:03

ninety ninety four from a woman

5:05

claiming knowledge of both the case

5:07

of the fort worth missing trio the

5:10

mysterious seldom know november

5:12

nineteen eighty two disappearance of

5:14

cathy may gold

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after three years service in the united states

5:43

military and fighting over seas

5:45

and world war two charles most

5:47

brownfield returned home to warren

5:49

county kentucky and nineteen forty

5:51

five when he

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was honorably discharged due

5:55

to an injury charles rejoined

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his wife alpha bell

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smith's grove a small community

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just northeast of bowling green

6:05

happy may brownfield was born on

6:07

august seventeen nineteen sixty

6:09

two to the couple the youngest

6:12

of their four children the others

6:14

all boys the

6:16

also had a half sister from her mother's

6:18

previous marriage growing

6:21

up on her family's farm milking

6:23

cows and helping harvest tobacco

6:25

from the fields cathy was

6:27

a southern kentucky farm girl through

6:29

and through he without

6:32

going by basis and quite

6:34

intelligent while

6:36

our urine east high school caddy

6:39

was an honor student known as

6:41

much for her dedication to her studies

6:43

by teachers as he was known

6:45

the popular cheerleader by fellow students

6:49

that he took baby sitting gigs to

6:51

make spending cash during her high school

6:53

days and if she was going to be

6:55

like coming home she always

6:58

found her mom or dad to let them

7:00

know it's a habit

7:02

that continued as she moved on from

7:04

watching kids and took a job

7:06

with a warren county clerk's office

7:08

where cathy continued to work after she

7:10

graduated in nineteen eighty the

7:14

inner parents were close so it

7:16

was likely somewhat of a shock when

7:18

eighteen year old cassie ran off to trials

7:20

day or tennessee to elope with

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the twenty four year old guy she'd been seeing

7:24

since high school steve gold

7:27

they marry just months after caddy graduated

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on october eleven nineteen eighty

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now county may go to she and her husband

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hung around bowling green and her parents

7:38

smith's grove farm for about

7:40

a year after they tied the knot but

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in a state severely affected by the crippling

7:46

recession that had be gone at the

7:48

turn of the new decade the opportunities

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for young folks were few perhaps

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is a namru with a wildly popular prime

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as the the of the united states

8:01

if not the world steve go decided

8:03

to look to taxes for a brighter future

8:06

the lone star state

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had a reputation even then for it's

8:10

robust oil driven economy

8:14

not necessarily recession proof but

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certainly recession resistant

8:19

after steve found what's reported

8:22

as well paid construction work

8:24

there he and cathy headed for the

8:26

city where the west truly

8:28

begins fort worth

8:32

in the fall of nineteen eighty one stephen

8:34

cathy go got settled into their new

8:36

texas home happy

8:39

took a job at a bank and dallas the

8:42

commute was not ideal but the job

8:44

was solid and paid well enough the

8:47

couple seems to have lived a fairly normal

8:50

life while planting their roots

8:52

and beginning careers happy

8:55

you still maintained at least weekly

8:57

communication with her mother and father

8:59

by both telephone and through the mail

9:03

she'd never missed a week in fact

9:06

but in mid november of the following year

9:09

nineteen eighty two those calls and

9:11

letters abruptly stopped it

9:14

was totally out of character for cathy

9:16

and charles and alpha brownfield

9:19

began to worry that something was terribly

9:21

wrong it's

9:23

unclear in newspaper and police

9:25

reports if their daughter's husband

9:27

steve gold phone the parents to

9:29

tell them about caddies disappearance

9:32

or if they called him after not hearing

9:34

from her whichever is

9:36

the case steve explain to them

9:38

that he'd reported cathy missing on

9:41

the evening of thursday november eleventh

9:43

nineteen eighty two after she didn't

9:45

come home from a trip to hirst a

9:47

for or suburb to exchange

9:49

some items at a department store the

9:52

taken the day off at the bank to do that

9:55

and some other shopping in the area three

9:59

days after kathy earnest on monday

10:01

nov fifteen nineteen eighty two

10:04

steve gold found her car abandoned

10:06

at a dallas fort worth international airport

10:08

parking lot he told the brownfields

10:11

the reported his

10:13

discovery to authorities right away

10:17

one of caddies brothers lived in the los

10:19

angeles california area so

10:22

when an airport security guard supposedly

10:24

told fort worth police that they recognized

10:27

a photograph of cathy and that she'd

10:29

boarded flight to seventy two

10:31

to los angeles a few days earlier

10:34

it's all they needed to hear happy

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go to laughed of her own free will

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and no further investigation detected

10:42

in fort worth concluded at that point

10:44

would be necessary confirming

10:47

with the airline that cathy took the

10:49

flight they apparently decided

10:51

wasn't even warranted the

10:54

lack of concern police seem to have

10:56

confused the brownfields they'd

10:59

received not so much as a single telephone

11:01

call from the fort worth police about

11:03

their daughter's disappearance and

11:05

when they called the department they were met

11:07

with unconcerned musings about

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the ways one spouse leaves another

11:13

happy was fine fort worth detected

11:15

told charles and alpha brownfield

11:18

he probably just didn't want a burden that what

11:20

her marital problems and they

11:22

hear from her soon enough the

11:26

disinterest in pursuing were twenty

11:28

year old cathy gold went or

11:30

more accurately what happened to

11:33

her resembled the stance the fort

11:35

worth police took on another case

11:37

six years earlier when they

11:39

insisted that seventeen year old rachel

11:41

to release a fourteen year old

11:43

when a wilson and nine year old

11:45

julie mosley had run away from their

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homes just two days before christmas

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when cathy go disappeared on thursday

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november eleventh nineteen eighty two

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police figured that she left her husband

13:47

steve and jumped on a plane to los

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angeles california where her brother

13:52

lived these car

13:54

after all was located by her husband

13:57

at dfw airport and a security

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guard there the told police she boarded a

14:01

flight to l a a couple days

14:03

earlier fort

14:05

worth police were so confident that this was

14:08

the case they didn't even turn to

14:10

local news outlets to announce the disappearance

14:12

with the description and photograph of kathy

14:16

in fact the missing persons case

14:18

of twenty year old cathy may gold

14:20

was never not one time

14:22

reported in the fort worth star telegram

14:25

or on area television news

14:27

something that would have had a good chance of producing

14:30

leads in the first several days

14:33

it was however reported plenty

14:36

and newspapers back and kathy's home

14:38

town bowling green kentucky

14:42

but not until authorities their took

14:44

it upon themselves to do what the fort worth

14:46

police would not investigate

14:48

kathy's disappearance

14:51

after the weeks slowly stretched on

14:54

kathy's parents could no longer stand

14:56

there nagging worries charles

14:59

brownfield turn to the warren county

15:01

kentucky commonwealth attorney's office

15:03

for help with his daughter's case he

15:06

knew something was wrong the father

15:08

explain the commonwealth's attorney more a

15:10

slow but felt nothing

15:13

was being done after

15:15

mr brownfield explained what he

15:17

knew about kathy's case attorney

15:19

low agreed that something should

15:22

be done he released

15:24

one of his best man from his duties

15:27

commonwealth detective glenwood

15:29

to concentrate solely on the fort worth

15:31

disappearance of catty may brownfield

15:34

go to

15:36

the window frank would or glad

15:39

as he was better known was a native

15:41

of warren county kentucky and

15:43

a long time lawman

15:46

the captain major and chief investigator

15:48

at the warren county sheriff's office detective

15:51

would investigated virtually every type

15:53

of crime imaginable

15:56

from low level stuff like juvenile

15:58

burglary rings course the

16:00

vast and serial obscene

16:02

phone calls the major crimes

16:04

like the apprehension of escaped convicts

16:07

armed robberies and homicides

16:11

as a detective for the commonwealth attorney's

16:13

office would did much of the same

16:16

but added to his long list of

16:18

investigative duties was large

16:20

scale fraud bombings

16:22

and complex drug manufacturing

16:25

and trafficking rings just to name a few

16:27

lin wood was the kind

16:29

of detective you wanted working for you

16:32

if you were on the right side of the law

16:34

and the type of cop you below the

16:36

have on your trail if you happen

16:38

to be on the wrong side undoubtedly

16:42

detective war it was among the best lawman

16:45

in south kentucky the

16:47

commonwealth attorney more a slow put glenwood

16:50

on the disappearance of cathy gold in

16:52

fort worth texas nearly eight hundred

16:54

miles away he did so

16:56

because he knew the man would get results

17:01

in early january of nineteen eighty

17:03

three detective glenwood

17:05

traveled to fort worth texas the

17:08

are also an alpha brownfield who

17:10

were farmers folks of modest

17:12

means foot the bill for

17:15

would strip mr

17:17

brownfield accompanied the detective

17:19

for a brief stay would

17:22

first order of business there was the meet

17:24

with police he was

17:26

given a missing persons report and a

17:28

supplementary report detailing

17:30

kathy's husband steve finding

17:32

her car at dfw airport

17:35

and the airport security guards claims

17:37

that cathy took a flight to california

17:41

most any person investigating a crime

17:43

would do next detective would

17:45

visited the airport and discovered that

17:47

cat his name was not in fact

17:50

among the passengers of flight to seventy

17:52

two to los angeles he

17:55

later comment straight out that fort worth

17:57

police never even attempted to verify

17:59

the information

18:02

while interpreting the police reports

18:04

detective would took know that if the fort

18:06

worth police suspected foul play

18:08

at all they seem to lean toward

18:10

kathy's husband

18:13

presumably would also wanted

18:15

to look at steve goat first since

18:17

a vast majority of people who commit

18:19

homicides are close to the victim

18:22

the fact that he both reported cathy

18:25

missing and happened to find her car

18:27

at the airport anyway didn't

18:29

look good thou

18:31

detective glenwood met with steve

18:33

go steve

18:36

readily agreed to undergo a polygraph

18:38

examination but he was ill

18:40

and the test provided only inconclusive

18:43

results the detectives

18:45

first meeting with caddies husband however

18:48

wasn't a total wash though

18:51

he wasn't ready to let steve off the hook

18:53

just yet would became very

18:56

interested in something steve told him

18:58

on january third nineteen eighty

19:00

three

19:03

a few days before twenty year old cathy

19:05

go disappeared she and her husband

19:07

steve bought a pickup truck had

19:09

a car dealership and hirst a

19:11

suburb not far from the couple's home

19:14

in east fort worth the

19:16

salesman their made several sexual

19:18

advances toward cathy of

19:21

which of course she refused

19:24

it was a bold thing to do and front

19:26

of her husband but circumstances

19:28

that followed the uncomfortable encounter

19:31

or downright bizarre the

19:34

couple days following the truck purchase

19:36

cathy bumped into the strange car salesman

19:39

at a restaurant i know exactly

19:41

how is never explained in

19:43

any reports when cathy lock

19:45

yourself out of the house one day the

19:48

man helped her get in detective

19:51

word was taken aback by the circumstances

19:55

steve god was telling the truth

19:57

it seemed clear this car salesmen was

19:59

stalking the and within days

20:01

of him doing so she vanished

20:03

without a trace

20:05

the woman though not representing

20:08

an agency of the law while investigating

20:10

candies case was chomping at

20:12

the bit as steve go told him

20:15

about the car salesman he

20:17

headed straight they're after

20:21

wanted to car dealership or cathy

20:23

was sexually harassed by a salesman

20:26

detective glenwood visited the management

20:28

office locating

20:31

the man wasn't going to be as easy

20:33

as going to his place of employment

20:35

would learned because the man had

20:37

since been fired the

20:40

car salesman management said

20:42

had been arrested after doing one thousand

20:45

dollars worth of damage to a woman's

20:47

vehicle after she refused

20:49

his sexual advances word

20:52

was wide eyed that was

20:54

another box checked on the list of what

20:57

makes someone a good suspect in

20:59

a disappearance and what detective

21:01

would learned next about the man

21:03

checked a few more upon

21:06

visiting the fort worth police department

21:08

with this new information in hand

21:11

would ran the car salesman's name

21:13

by detectives on

21:15

his record was a history of criminal

21:18

mischief physical assault

21:20

and sexual assault the

21:22

fort worth police finally became interested

21:25

in what cathy goats parents and her husband

21:27

steve had been saying all along

21:30

the missing young woman met with

21:32

foul play

21:35

it wasn't until sunday february

21:37

sixth nineteen eighty three the

21:40

commonwealth of kentucky detective glenwood

21:42

was able to question the second suspect

21:45

in the disappearance of twenty year old cathy

21:48

go the car

21:50

salesman according to would made

21:52

several statements in the interview that

21:54

were lies exactly

21:57

what those lies were detective

21:59

would never exp

21:59

founded upon

22:02

when asked if he'd take a lie detector

22:04

test the salesmen agreed

22:06

to however when it came

22:08

time to hook up to the machine the

22:10

following day he refused

22:14

happy husband steve was also

22:16

asked to take a polygraph examination

22:19

for a second time since the first

22:21

had produced inconclusive results

22:24

the agreed and passed with

22:26

flying colors detective would said

22:30

after questioning several folks

22:32

would determine that there was absolutely

22:34

no evidence that cathy and

22:36

steve we're experiencing any marital

22:39

problems evidence

22:41

continually pointed toward steve

22:43

go to innocence wilde suspicion

22:45

of the car salesman grew stronger

22:47

by the day a

22:50

few days after the new prime suspects

22:52

questioning those suspicions

22:55

became practically monolithic

22:59

on thursday february ten nineteen

23:01

eighty three detective glenwood

23:03

met with a confidential informant who

23:06

told him that the car salesmen had indeed

23:09

killed cathy code the

23:11

informant told would that the day before caddy

23:14

vanished november tenth nineteen

23:16

eighty two the suspect had been given

23:18

a demo vehicle by management

23:20

at the dealership the

23:23

last day cathy was seen

23:25

november eleventh the suspect

23:27

left the dealership driving that

23:29

car and never return to work

23:33

the following day november twelve

23:35

nineteen eighty two the suspect traded

23:37

demos with another salesman the

23:39

informant claimed detective

23:42

would never let a piece of information

23:44

go unchecked and he determined

23:47

that the informant was telling the truth

23:51

on monday february fourteenth

23:53

nineteen eighty three detective glenwood

23:56

alongside fort worth police detectives

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nineteen eighty three commonwealth of

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kentucky detective a glenwood

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met with self proclaimed psychic

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john catchings of dallas

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catchings at the time was experiencing

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is fifteen minutes of fame having

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led and as texas police to a

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missing man's body among a

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couple other successes most

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all the tricks so called psychics

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word was incredibly skeptical

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of such box but became impressed

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to kathy's disa

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there it's seemingly out of nowhere

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years later the detective told a bowling

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green kentucky newspaper reporter

28:07

that john catchings perfectly described

28:09

his suspect like he was looking

28:12

at a photo of demand

28:14

the psychic had never seen him settings

28:17

lead would to a specific spot

28:20

on a fort worth area lake and told

28:22

the detective that this is where diverse

28:24

should concentrate with our efforts

28:28

always holding his cards close to

28:30

the chest glenn would never let

28:32

the name of the fort worth area lake

28:34

slip from his lips when speaking

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to reporters again

28:39

the detective was as skilled alarm

28:42

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28:44

an investigation or skirting

28:47

around nosy questions from reporters

28:49

which he could not avoid on this case

28:51

once he was back home in kentucky in

28:55

fort worth though not a single reporter

28:57

came near the case it's

29:00

unclear if they even knew about it though

29:04

it was not a particularly cold

29:06

winter overall in north texas

29:09

a cold snap the first week of february

29:12

was enough to render area lake waters

29:14

frigid police divers

29:17

were unable to search the spot right

29:19

away back where

29:21

he was from a would later complained

29:24

you immediately start dragging the lake

29:28

on thursday february seventeen

29:31

nineteen eighty three commonwealth of

29:33

kentucky detective glenwood appeared

29:35

before a terror county grand jury to

29:37

present evidence and argue why

29:39

a prosecution should be sought

29:42

assistant district attorney alex gonzalez

29:45

later reported that a full scale grand

29:47

jury investigation had gone

29:51

after detective would headed

29:53

back to kentucky

29:55

there he had the unfortunate duty

29:58

of telling alpha bell and co the most

30:00

brownfield that their daughter twenty

30:02

year old catty may gold was most

30:05

likely dead

30:07

the lake where they suspected kathy's body

30:09

would be sound wouldn't likely be

30:11

searched until may would told

30:14

reporters for the park city daily news

30:16

a newspaper serving bowling green kentucky

30:20

you'd also gotten word that turret county

30:22

texas prosecutors declined

30:24

to bring an indictment against the suspect

30:27

until caddies body could be found

30:31

the case detective would somberly

30:33

commented was currently in

30:35

limbo the fort

30:37

worth police department changed the status

30:40

of caddies case from missing person

30:42

to homicide and the case was

30:44

assigned to seize and homicide detective

30:47

h w sinclair

30:50

the months passed and by july

30:53

nineteen eighty three not a policeman

30:55

detective or pencil pusher

30:57

from the fort worth police department or tear

30:59

county district attorney's office were

31:01

calling with any news in

31:04

fact in the nine months since caddy disappeared

31:07

the brownfields never received a single

31:09

phone call from authorities in texas

31:13

detective would graciously told

31:15

reporters that police in fort worth

31:17

were swapped and just had not had

31:19

time to search for kept his body in

31:22

an article about kathy's disappearance

31:25

the kentucky newspaper the louisville courier

31:28

journal reported that in nineteen

31:30

eighty two twenty two hundred missing persons

31:32

reports had been filed in fort worth

31:34

alone there was

31:36

a problem anyway the confidential

31:39

informant told would he didn't

31:41

know what like the suspect dumped

31:43

the missing woman's body in and

31:45

the detective was going by the ceiling or

31:47

visions or whatever of a psychic

31:51

with seemingly no progress being

31:53

made charles brownfield and

31:55

glenwood planned another trip

31:57

to fort worth although

31:59

miss brownfield felt guilt for

32:01

asking detective would to go back

32:03

to texas he felt he had no other

32:06

choice the frustrated

32:08

and grieving father was also too

32:10

proud to ask for money and

32:13

cathy spokes had exhausted their financial

32:15

cushion funding woods first

32:17

investigation that

32:19

mr brownfield didn't have to ask

32:22

for money the and

32:24

alphas church pleasant grove

32:26

missionary baptist held a benefit

32:28

to raise funds for further investigative

32:31

efforts the family friend

32:33

at a local bank to began

32:35

collecting money though

32:38

detective would estimated expenses

32:40

on this second investigation

32:42

to be around eight thousand dollars

32:45

the noble lawman who was on unpaid

32:47

leave said he refused

32:50

to charge for his time for

32:52

the next trip detective would

32:55

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33:01

by a retired pennsylvania state

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he figured he could pinpoint the

33:07

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33:10

also intended to bring in the texas rangers

33:13

on his second investigation after

33:17

traveling back to fort worth detective

33:19

would hit nothing but roadblocks

33:23

the tracking dog could not be used

33:25

he said because the local police feared

33:27

anything the dog sound would be

33:29

inadmissible in court would

33:33

and charles brownfield spent eight

33:35

days and taxes and because of

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what the detective called political

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and legal problems the trip

33:41

was a bust

33:44

the disappearance of cathy gold grew

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colder and colder by the year

33:49

exactly two years after she vanished

33:52

in an article in the park city daily

33:54

news on november eleventh nineteen

33:56

eighty four charles brownfield complained

33:59

that every he phoned authorities

34:01

in fort worth they say the investigating

34:04

officer will call back but they never

34:06

do the the mother

34:08

alpha said she was tortured by

34:10

the fact kathy's body had not been

34:12

found detective

34:15

glenwood got word that the car salesman

34:17

the suspect had since been convicted

34:20

of raping a woman in amarillo

34:22

texas and was serving a fourteen

34:24

year sentence he

34:26

had no hope at this point a

34:28

dejected woods said of

34:31

finding kathy's body he

34:33

was getting a little help from authorities and texas

34:37

the detective was flirting with the idea

34:39

of returning to taxes by the end

34:41

of december nineteen eighty four because

34:44

he had information that directly

34:46

linked the suspect with cathy

34:48

and wanted to confirm it it's

34:51

unclear if he did

34:55

in december nineteen eighty six because

34:57

of a reward offered by kathy's husband

35:00

steve go to the rumor mill

35:02

began swirling with talk that the missing

35:04

twenty year olds body had been found

35:07

the reward as they often do

35:10

had professional tipsters coming

35:12

out of the woodwork claiming to have knowledge

35:14

of the crime leeds

35:17

were still being pursued investigator

35:19

jack morton of the turret county

35:21

district attorney's office told a bowling

35:24

green kentucky reporter but none

35:26

of any significance had come in

35:28

one and a half years the

35:31

following june after billionaire boys

35:33

club founder joseph henry hunt

35:35

was tried for the murder of a journalist

35:38

who to contact them and several others

35:40

out of millions ronald leavened

35:43

detective woods optimism was renewed

35:47

eleven body was never found

35:49

and hunt was convicted

35:52

it meant there was a chance

35:54

the reality was there had been plenty

35:57

of other nobody convictions in

35:59

the united it's prior to that

36:01

of hunt in california

36:04

regardless detective would still

36:06

couldn't convince the terror county district

36:08

attorney's office to seek an indictment

36:13

on a visit to fort worth in december of

36:15

nineteen ninety eight years after

36:17

kathy's disappearance texas

36:20

rangers took interest in the case

36:22

as did police officers from arlington

36:25

a city and between dallas and fort

36:27

worth

36:28

nothing substantial came from the trip

36:32

after retiring from the commonwealth of kentucky

36:35

attorney's office on may first

36:37

ninety ninety one glenwood

36:39

said solving cathy goats case

36:42

is something he still wants to do

36:44

but he had continued

36:46

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36:49

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36:51

checks that had been a problem and south

36:53

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36:56

in january of nineteen ninety two

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word had gotten around the to use of dna

37:01

in investigations and to obtain

37:03

convictions was going to become

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a standard in law enforcement would

37:09

was excited by the idea of using

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37:13

to test the hairs found in the car

37:16

the suspect was driving the day

37:18

she vanished now

37:20

he thought was the time the

37:23

car salesman the prime suspect

37:25

was out on parole after serving only

37:27

six years of a fourteen year sentence

37:30

for raping a woman in amarillo

37:33

thirteen detect avoid said

37:36

is the number of wise to suspect told

37:38

him back in eighty three and

37:41

playing it much farther from the chest

37:43

than usual he said the suspect

37:46

admitted to seeing cathy the day

37:48

before she disappeared would

37:51

have been working on the case but

37:53

neither he nor the brownfields had the funds

37:55

to send him back down to texas in

37:58

an attempt to get folks donate to

38:00

a fund set up at bowling green

38:03

bank interest detective would

38:05

took to the local newspaper

38:07

he said he developed deep ties

38:10

with an agent of the missing persons bureau

38:12

and a texas ranger both

38:14

who were willing to assist they

38:17

did raise the money needed to send would

38:19

back down in february of ninety

38:21

ninety two but even with the help

38:23

of a texas ranger no real progress

38:26

was made ranger

38:28

sergeant could be dendy however

38:31

said he was sure glenwood had the right

38:33

guy and the texas department of public

38:35

safety plan to develop a psychological

38:38

profile of the suspect there's

38:41

found will be tested for dna

38:43

the ranger added but the seeming

38:45

lack of concern by several law

38:47

enforcement agencies in texas

38:50

was troubling to both ranger dandy

38:52

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38:54

woods trip to texas he survey

38:57

old and tail the suspect but

38:59

before he could make contact he

39:01

lost him in traffic no

39:04

news reports had been published since

39:06

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39:11

ninety two article published in bowling

39:13

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39:16

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the following letter was opened and

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written by officer jd tie

42:14

water of the fort worth police on

42:16

monday december fifth nineteen

42:18

ninety four

42:20

quote

42:21

hello

42:22

i live in la crescenta california

42:24

and recently heard a girlfriend of mine that

42:26

i knew and nineteen eighty one while

42:28

i lived in fort worth has been missing

42:30

since nineteen eighty two or nineteen

42:32

eighty three name's cathy gold

42:35

i moved to this area or

42:37

well november of nineteen eighty two a

42:40

few months cathy state of my apartment

42:42

but i recall she met a guy named tom

42:44

to release of he got her

42:46

engagement ring i

42:49

did not like him because he beat her

42:51

and warned cathy not to live with him

42:54

the only thing weird i recall about the

42:56

tom to release or was he one night

42:58

beat her and told her he would kill her

43:00

like he did one of his wives the

43:03

often bragged about killing several young

43:05

girls although cathy stood up for him

43:08

i knew they were to wed around november

43:11

of nineteen eighty two a

43:13

friend of mine in houston sent me a photo

43:15

of cathy recently published in a missing

43:18

kids newspaper named missing children's

43:20

bullets and printed in houston i

43:23

recall tom and off because he always tried

43:25

to date me behind caddies back com

43:28

no caddy he hired a mexican friend

43:30

back in nineteen seventy four seventy

43:32

five to kill one of his wives told

43:36

cathy he buried her with some other little

43:38

girl friends of hers that all lived in

43:40

his house outback of his house

43:42

in fort worth

43:44

i won't at he was weird

43:46

i think she said he was going to give him back

43:49

her engagement ring and i'll bet he killed

43:51

her happy with aged twenty

43:53

or nineteen when i last saw her

43:56

he was living in tom's new house he

43:59

also told the he killed his adoptive

44:01

parents with arsenic boys

44:04

he said he was adopted and mistreated

44:07

sincerely sarah may bergman and

44:10

quote

44:12

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44:14

by new york city's metropolitan

44:17

museum of art featuring a

44:19

reproduction of an image called

44:21

side view of the great sphinx

44:23

by david roberts created

44:25

for the eighteen forty two book titled

44:27

the holy land syria i

44:30

do mayor arabia egypt

44:32

and newbies the envelope

44:34

was postmarked november thirtieth nineteen

44:37

ninety four from pasadena california

44:40

over a stab featuring a stuffed

44:42

for christmas stocking and no

44:44

return address in the top left corner

44:48

judging by the supplementary report

44:50

the receipt of this letter seem to have excited

44:53

the officer who opened and reddit perhaps

44:56

feeling the department just got a big break

44:58

in a case or maybe two that

45:01

even other than the fact that the reports

45:03

spell caddies name with a c

45:06

instead of okay the letter writer

45:08

new virtually nothing about

45:10

cathy go the contrary to

45:12

their claims i

45:14

have no way of knowing his caddie ever

45:16

stayed at the riders apartment as

45:18

they say but she was almost certainly

45:21

not sporting and engagement

45:23

ring from anyone other than her husband

45:25

steve gold also

45:28

if cathy had been beaten steve

45:30

would surely have noticed bruises

45:32

black guys or split lips

45:35

on his own wife finally

45:38

how would cathy mary tom to

45:40

release or as the rider claims

45:42

when she was already married to steve

45:46

the writers accusation that quote

45:48

tom told caddy he hired a mexican

45:50

friend back in nineteen seventy four

45:52

nineteen seventy five to kill one

45:54

of his wives and buried her with

45:56

some other little girl friends of hers that

45:58

all lived in his house and quote

46:01

refers to rachel true lisa lisa

46:04

wilson and julie mosley otherwise

46:06

known as the fort worth missing trio

46:09

the last line makes little sense

46:11

if you're familiar with these girls disappearances

46:15

they did not all live at tom's who

46:17

it should be noted is called tommy

46:20

by pretty much everyone who has ever known

46:22

him seemingly

46:25

the letter is at best a blatant hoax

46:28

and at worst an attempt to further

46:30

implicate tommy to release off in the

46:32

disappearance of renee rachel

46:34

and julie or

46:36

perhaps it was written to throw

46:39

police after trail of whoever

46:41

killed cathy gold whatever

46:44

the case like the infamous going

46:46

to houston ladder received the day

46:48

after the missing trio disappeared from

46:50

a poor or shopping center in nineteen

46:52

seventy four the sarah may bergman

46:55

letter does nothing but further confuse

46:57

and complicate two cases that

46:59

are already shrouded in mystery there

47:03

are other troubling details in the police

47:05

report dealing with julie rachel

47:08

and were nice disappearances those

47:10

details are perhaps for another

47:12

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47:15

that he may brownfield ago the parents

47:17

were older when catty was born

47:20

her mother alphabet a was forty two years

47:22

old and her father charles most forty

47:26

he died in october of nineteen ninety

47:28

five and see and october

47:30

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47:32

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47:35

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47:37

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47:41

galindo frank would was working

47:43

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47:45

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47:47

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47:50

after he retired from law enforcement

47:53

the former warren county kentucky sheriff's

47:55

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47:58

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48:00

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48:05

he was only fifty six years old

48:08

detective ward worked cathy go to case

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to the end

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judging by a state records with

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caddies name on them she was declared

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dead in nineteen ninety six

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it wasn't until october twenty ninth

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two thousand and ten the cabbie was

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entered into the national missing and

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unidentified persons system

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or name us to

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this day know media outlet

48:36

in the fort worth area from where

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she disappeared as covered

48:40

kathy's missing persons case

48:45

just a quick note i work

48:47

it was hours attempting to find the name

48:49

of the car salesman detective glenwood

48:51

identified as the suspect in this

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case

48:54

but i ultimately failed

48:57

i only hope the files would collected and

48:59

kept were given over to authorities

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after he passed

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if you have any information on the disappearance

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of cathy may brownfield go down

49:10

please contact the texas department of public

49:12

safety's missing persons clearing

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house at five one to

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four to four five zero

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seven four or eight

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hundred three four six three

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to four three the

49:26

old missing persons and oh cases

49:29

all over the country need your help

49:33

here in our own backyard the fort worth

49:35

police cold case unit is working

49:37

daily and diligently in an attempt

49:39

to solve the city's nearly one thousand

49:42

cold cases if

49:44

, like to help because go to

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fw p d cold case

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support dot org also

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, solves dot com you'll

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find several ways

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