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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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perhaps the most well known and
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case in fort worth texas
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is the mysterious disappearance of
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three girls
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most often referred to collectively
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as the fort worth missing trio seventeen
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year old rachel truly saw fourteen
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year old renee wilson and nine
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year old julie mosley vanished
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two days before christmas and nineteen
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seventy four leaving not
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a trace of where they went or
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what happened to them the
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witnesses reported seeing the three girls
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that the seminary south shopping center
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on december twenty third in various
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situations both innocuous
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and troubling those accounts
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are considered by many to be questionable
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at best even as rachel's
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car was found their that evenings
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parked outside sears department store
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the day following julie renee
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and rachel's disappearances a
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clue surpassed that only muddied
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the investigative waters a
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letter that claim to be written by rachel
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explaining that the girls just had
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to get away and had traveled to
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houston to do just that they
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be back the letter read in
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about a week the car
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could be found in sears upper parking
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lot the fort worth
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police had insisted from the get go
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that renee rachel and julie
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had just taken off and would be back
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the letter certainly seem to serve the
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specific purpose it's rider had
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in mind to keep them from
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doing any investigating at all
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and at first more alas
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they didn't in a decade
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since this trio went missing however
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private investigators fort worth police
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detectives and countless amateur
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sleuths including family
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members have followed virtually every
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rabbit hole trying to find out what happened
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to them many
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suspects have emerged though it's
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unclear if any have ever been officially
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named as such
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still other than anniversary stories
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and the local newspaper the fort worth
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star telegram talk of the disappearances
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of the girls known as the city's
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missing trio were relegated
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to third hand bar rumor and beauty
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shop gossip
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wild speculation based on
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misunderstood fact at some point
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became more the rule than the exception
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sometimes it seemed outright
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miss troops would come along and
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whether those miss truths were and are
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intended as diversions or
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just sick jokes is anyone's
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guess perhaps
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they're simply creations of board
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but inventive mines whatever
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the case the rumor mill should hardly
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bear the brunt of the blame sporadically
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some new piece of information surfaced
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that at face value look to
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be a previously lost an important
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piece of the puzzle like
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another letter i received by fort worth
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police detectives in december of
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ninety ninety four from a woman
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claiming knowledge of both the case
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of the fort worth missing trio the
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mysterious seldom know november
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nineteen eighty two disappearance of
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cathy may gold
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after three years service in the united states
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military and fighting over seas
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and world war two charles most
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brownfield returned home to warren
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county kentucky and nineteen forty
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five when he
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was honorably discharged due
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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
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happy may brownfield was born on
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august seventeen nineteen sixty
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two to the couple the youngest
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of their four children the others
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all boys the
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also had a half sister from her mother's
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previous marriage growing
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up on her family's farm milking
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cows and helping harvest tobacco
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from the fields cathy was
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a southern kentucky farm girl through
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and through he without
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going by basis and quite
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intelligent while
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our urine east high school caddy
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was an honor student known as
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much for her dedication to her studies
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by teachers as he was known
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the popular cheerleader by fellow students
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that he took baby sitting gigs to
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make spending cash during her high school
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days and if she was going to be
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like coming home she always
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found her mom or dad to let them
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know it's a habit
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that continued as she moved on from
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watching kids and took a job
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with a warren county clerk's office
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where cathy continued to work after she
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graduated in nineteen eighty the
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inner parents were close so it
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was likely somewhat of a shock when
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eighteen year old cassie ran off to trials
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day or tennessee to elope with
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the twenty four year old guy she'd been seeing
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since high school steve gold
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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
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smith's grove farm for about
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a year after they tied the knot but
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in a state severely affected by the crippling
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recession that had be gone at the
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turn of the new decade the opportunities
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for young folks were few perhaps
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as the the of the united states
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if not the world steve go decided
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to look to taxes for a brighter future
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the lone star state
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had a reputation even then for it's
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robust oil driven economy
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not necessarily recession proof but
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certainly recession resistant
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after steve found what's reported
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as well paid construction work
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there he and cathy headed for the
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city where the west truly
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begins fort worth
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in the fall of nineteen eighty one stephen
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cathy go got settled into their new
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texas home happy
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took a job at a bank and dallas the
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commute was not ideal but the job
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was solid and paid well enough the
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couple seems to have lived a fairly normal
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life while planting their roots
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and beginning careers happy
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you still maintained at least weekly
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communication with her mother and father
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by both telephone and through the mail
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she'd never missed a week in fact
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but in mid november of the following year
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nineteen eighty two those calls and
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letters abruptly stopped it
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was totally out of character for cathy
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and charles and alpha brownfield
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began to worry that something was terribly
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wrong it's
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unclear in newspaper and police
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reports if their daughter's husband
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steve gold phone the parents to
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tell them about caddies disappearance
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or if they called him after not hearing
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from her whichever is
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the case steve explain to them
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that he'd reported cathy missing on
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the evening of thursday november eleventh
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nineteen eighty two after she didn't
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come home from a trip to hirst a
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for or suburb to exchange
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some items at a department store the
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taken the day off at the bank to do that
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and some other shopping in the area three
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days after kathy earnest on monday
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nov fifteen nineteen eighty two
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steve gold found her car abandoned
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at a dallas fort worth international airport
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parking lot he told the brownfields
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the reported his
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discovery to authorities right away
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one of caddies brothers lived in the los
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angeles california area so
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when an airport security guard supposedly
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told fort worth police that they recognized
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a photograph of cathy and that she'd
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boarded flight to seventy two
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to los angeles a few days earlier
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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
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in fort worth concluded at that point
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would be necessary confirming
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with the airline that cathy took the
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flight they apparently decided
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wasn't even warranted the
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lack of concern police seem to have
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confused the brownfields they'd
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received not so much as a single telephone
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call from the fort worth police about
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their daughter's disappearance and
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when they called the department they were met
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with unconcerned musings about
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the ways one spouse leaves another
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happy was fine fort worth detected
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told charles and alpha brownfield
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he probably just didn't want a burden that what
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her marital problems and they
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hear from her soon enough the
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disinterest in pursuing were twenty
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year old cathy gold went or
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more accurately what happened to
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her resembled the stance the fort
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worth police took on another case
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six years earlier when they
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insisted that seventeen year old rachel
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to release a fourteen year old
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when a wilson and nine year old
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julie mosley had run away from their
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november eleventh nineteen eighty two
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police figured that she left her husband
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steve and jumped on a plane to los
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angeles california where her brother
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lived these car
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after all was located by her husband
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at dfw airport and a security
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guard there the told police she boarded a
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flight to l a a couple days
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earlier fort
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worth police were so confident that this was
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the case they didn't even turn to
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local news outlets to announce the disappearance
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with the description and photograph of kathy
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in fact the missing persons case
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of twenty year old cathy may gold
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was never not one time
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reported in the fort worth star telegram
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or on area television news
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something that would have had a good chance of producing
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leads in the first several days
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it was however reported plenty
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and newspapers back and kathy's home
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town bowling green kentucky
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but not until authorities their took
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it upon themselves to do what the fort worth
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police would not investigate
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kathy's disappearance
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after the weeks slowly stretched on
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kathy's parents could no longer stand
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there nagging worries charles
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brownfield turn to the warren county
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kentucky commonwealth attorney's office
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for help with his daughter's case he
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knew something was wrong the father
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explain the commonwealth's attorney more a
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slow but felt nothing
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was being done after
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mr brownfield explained what he
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knew about kathy's case attorney
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low agreed that something should
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be done he released
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one of his best man from his duties
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commonwealth detective glenwood
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to concentrate solely on the fort worth
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disappearance of catty may brownfield
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go to
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the window frank would or glad
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as he was better known was a native
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of warren county kentucky and
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a long time lawman
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the captain major and chief investigator
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at the warren county sheriff's office detective
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would investigated virtually every type
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of crime imaginable
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from low level stuff like juvenile
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burglary rings course the
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vast and serial obscene
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phone calls the major crimes
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like the apprehension of escaped convicts
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armed robberies and homicides
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as a detective for the commonwealth attorney's
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office would did much of the same
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but added to his long list of
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investigative duties was large
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scale fraud bombings
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and complex drug manufacturing
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and trafficking rings just to name a few
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lin wood was the kind
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of detective you wanted working for you
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if you were on the right side of the law
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and the type of cop you below the
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have on your trail if you happen
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to be on the wrong side undoubtedly
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detective war it was among the best lawman
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in south kentucky the
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commonwealth attorney more a slow put glenwood
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on the disappearance of cathy gold in
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fort worth texas nearly eight hundred
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miles away he did so
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because he knew the man would get results
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in early january of nineteen eighty
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three detective glenwood
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traveled to fort worth texas the
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are also an alpha brownfield who
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were farmers folks of modest
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means foot the bill for
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would strip mr
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brownfield accompanied the detective
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for a brief stay would
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first order of business there was the meet
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with police he was
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given a missing persons report and a
17:28
supplementary report detailing
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kathy's husband steve finding
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her car at dfw airport
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and the airport security guards claims
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that cathy took a flight to california
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most any person investigating a crime
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would do next detective would
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visited the airport and discovered that
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cat his name was not in fact
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among the passengers of flight to seventy
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two to los angeles he
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later comment straight out that fort worth
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police never even attempted to verify
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the information
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while interpreting the police reports
18:04
detective would took know that if the fort
18:06
worth police suspected foul play
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at all they seem to lean toward
18:10
kathy's husband
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presumably would also wanted
18:15
to look at steve goat first since
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a vast majority of people who commit
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homicides are close to the victim
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the fact that he both reported cathy
18:25
missing and happened to find her car
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at the airport anyway didn't
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look good thou
18:31
detective glenwood met with steve
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go steve
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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
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wasn't a total wash though
18:51
he wasn't ready to let steve off the hook
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just yet would became very
18:56
interested in something steve told him
18:58
on january third nineteen eighty
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three
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a few days before twenty year old cathy
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go disappeared she and her husband
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steve bought a pickup truck had
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a car dealership and hirst a
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suburb not far from the couple's home
19:14
in east fort worth the
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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
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at a restaurant i know exactly
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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
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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
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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
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his record was a history of criminal
21:18
mischief physical assault
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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
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foul play
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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
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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
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founded upon
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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
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flying colors detective would said
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after questioning several folks
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would determine that there was absolutely
22:34
no evidence that cathy and
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steve we're experiencing any marital
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problems evidence
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continually pointed toward steve
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go to innocence wilde suspicion
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of the car salesman grew stronger
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by the day a
22:50
few days after the new prime suspects
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questioning those suspicions
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became practically monolithic
22:59
on thursday february ten nineteen
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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
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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
23:58
and crime scene and best haters located
24:01
the car the suspect was driving the
24:03
day cathy disappeared
24:06
in the truck they found long hairs
24:09
windows were compared to hairs taken
24:11
from kathy goats hairbrush and rollers
24:14
they were determined to be markedly similar
24:17
in color and texture the
24:19
body of the brown haired green eyed young
24:21
woman would have been easy for the
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suspect to move steward
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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
27:30
led and as texas police to a
27:32
missing man's body among a
27:34
couple other successes most
27:37
policemen attributed those successes
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to a mix of an incredibly observant
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detail oriented mind and
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all the tricks so called psychics
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use detective
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word was incredibly skeptical
27:51
of such box but became impressed
27:53
with catchings if only momentarily
27:56
when he was able to come up with details related
27:58
to kathy's disa
27:59
there it's seemingly out of nowhere
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years later the detective told a bowling
28:05
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
28:37
to reporters again
28:39
the detective was as skilled alarm
28:42
and as they com whether conducting
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
had a plan to bring in one
32:57
of the nation's most skilled tracking
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33:01
by a retired pennsylvania state
33:03
trooper that way
33:05
he figured he could pinpoint the
33:07
right fort worth lake would
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
33:37
what the detective called political
33:39
and legal problems the trip
33:41
was a bust
33:44
the disappearance of cathy gold grew
33:46
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
to work part time on an epidemic
36:49
of fraudulent and forged past
36:51
checks that had been a problem and south
36:53
kentucky for going on five years
36:56
in january of nineteen ninety two
36:59
word had gotten around the to use of dna
37:01
in investigations and to obtain
37:03
convictions was going to become
37:05
a standard in law enforcement would
37:09
was excited by the idea of using
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the technology and caddies case
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
and detective would the
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
detective would fund texas ranger dandies
39:08
recollections in a march nineteen
39:11
ninety two article published in bowling
39:13
green kentucky is park city daily news
39:16
more than two and a half years later the fort
39:18
worth police received the strangest piece
39:21
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39:23
of a letter the connected kathy's
39:25
case with one of the city's most
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42:10
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42:12
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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
the letter was written on a card published
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
of two thousand without being
47:32
able to bury their daughter and
47:35
never knowing beyond a shadow of
47:37
a doubt what happened to her
47:41
galindo frank would was working
47:43
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47:45
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47:47
of grocery stores and the united states
47:50
after he retired from law enforcement
47:53
the former warren county kentucky sheriff's
47:55
office chief investigator and commonwealth
47:58
attorneys detective died
48:00
at much too soon on august
48:02
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48:05
he was only fifty six years old
48:08
detective ward worked cathy go to case
48:11
to the end
48:14
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48:16
caddies name on them she was declared
48:18
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48:23
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48:25
two thousand and ten the cabbie was
48:27
entered into the national missing and
48:29
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48:32
or name us to
48:34
this day know media outlet
48:36
in the fort worth area from where
48:38
she disappeared as covered
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kathy's missing persons case
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just a quick note i work
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it was hours attempting to find the name
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of the car salesman detective glenwood
48:51
identified as the suspect in this
48:53
case
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but i ultimately failed
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i only hope the files would collected and
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kept were given over to authorities
49:02
after he passed
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if you have any information on the disappearance
49:08
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
49:23
to four three the
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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
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daily and diligently in an attempt
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to solve the city's nearly one thousand
49:42
cold cases if
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, 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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