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The Slaying of Judy Herron and the Kidnapping of Amy McNeil · Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

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  Speaker 1: The Gone Cold. Podcasts may contain violent or graphics subject matter.
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  Speaker 2: Collibill, Texas wasn't always the near exclusively affluent Dallas Fort
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  Speaker 2: Worth suburb it's known as today. Around ten years after
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  Speaker 2: the state joined the Union in the mid eighteen fifties,
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  Speaker 2: two families settled in the area between Big Bear and
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  Speaker 2: Little Bear Creeks. This region was rich with resources, and
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  Speaker 2: the soil's fertility made this North Texas land nearly perfect
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  Speaker 2: for farming. Within a couple decades of the dun and
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  Speaker 2: Witton families settling the area, four small and separate communities
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  Speaker 2: were formed Bransford, Spring Garden, Pleasant Glade and Pleasant Run.
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  Speaker 2: In eighteen eighty five, Missouriman and Union Army veteran doctor
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  Speaker 2: Lilburn Howard Colley moved to the Bransford area and quickly
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  Speaker 2: became involved in community politics. He became well respected fast
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  Speaker 2: as he was a good physician and often offered other
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  Speaker 2: veterans aid in obtaining their rightful pensions. A small area
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  Speaker 2: was named for doctor Colley in nineteen fourteen, and by
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  Speaker 2: the mid twentieth century, the city of Hurst planned to
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  Speaker 2: annex much of these communities and tax the citizens there.
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  Speaker 2: Because folks there weren't too keen on handing any of
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  Speaker 2: their hard earned money over to Hurst, the communities banded
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  Speaker 2: together to form Colleyville in nineteen fifty six, the year
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  Speaker 2: they became an incorporated city. Still, this new city's growth
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  Speaker 2: took time. Over the next couple decades, the local government
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  Speaker 2: became larger and started playing more of a role in
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  Speaker 2: the Grander Scheme, which by nineteen eighty was the plan
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  Speaker 2: to become the Highland Park of Arrant County. This refers
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  Speaker 2: to a community in Dallas County, just north of the
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  Speaker 2: City of Dallas's downtown that is exclusively for the affluent
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  Speaker 2: to an elite. So just after the local government announced
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  Speaker 2: their plans for the future of Colleyville, construction of the
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  Speaker 2: high end neighborhood Terra Plantation boomed. Well to do folks
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  Speaker 2: couldn't get to the Dallas Fort Worth suburb fast enough. Hell,
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  Speaker 2: even the infamous oilman an accused killer T. Colin Davis
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  Speaker 2: has been a longtime resident in Colleyville, but his is
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  Speaker 2: a story for another time. Perhaps often cited as one
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  Speaker 2: of the safest cities in Texas, with the highest percentage
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  Speaker 2: of college graduates, Colleyville, like everywhere, has its dark history,
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  Speaker 2: and in nineteen eighty four, resident Judy Herron was the
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  Speaker 2: victim of the city's fourth ever homicide, the first ever
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  Speaker 2: in the Terra Plantations subdivision. Judy Carrol Kritz was born
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  Speaker 2: in Tarrant County on June second, nineteen forty seven, to
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  Speaker 2: parents Edgar and Irma. Judy's grandfather, Edgar F. Crit's Senior,
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  Speaker 2: along with her father, Edgar Junior, founded Chrit's Oil Company,
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  Speaker 2: Incorporated two years before she was born in nineteen forty five,
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  Speaker 2: and the business grew quickly, expanding to offices in northeast
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  Speaker 2: Tarrant County, East West and northeast Fort Worth, Cleeburne, Arlington,
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  Speaker 2: and Dallas. Besides his place as the president of the
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  Speaker 2: Texas Oil Marketers Association, Edgar Chrits Junior was also the
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  Speaker 2: president of the Riverside Civic League. For a time, the
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  Speaker 2: Chrit's family were prominent and terror County, and were particularly
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  Speaker 2: civically active on Fort Worth's north side. In fact, in
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  Speaker 2: the nineteen sixties, Edgar Crit's Senior began a permanent fund
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  Speaker 2: for the upkeep of the graves of other prominent area figures.
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  Speaker 2: Those buried at Birdville Cemetery. Names found on headstones there
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  Speaker 2: include Melbourne, Booth, Calloway, and Rufe Snow, to name a few.
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  Speaker 2: These are well known names throughout the area, though likely
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  Speaker 2: more for the streets named after them than for their
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  Speaker 2: actual roles settling the land. Anyway, both Edgar Crit's junior
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  Speaker 2: and senior had made a major name for themselves in
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  Speaker 2: the area, not only as oilmen, but also as politically
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  Speaker 2: engaged citizens. Judy Kritz grew up in the upscale Haltam
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  Speaker 2: City neighborhood Diamond Locke and graduated from Richland High School
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen sixty five. She didn't want for much, but
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  Speaker 2: Judy was still driven to make her own way. While
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  Speaker 2: attending the University of Colorado at Boulder, she met a
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  Speaker 2: fellow education student named David Herron, who went by his
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  Speaker 2: middle name Lee. Their whirlwind romance resulted in the two
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  Speaker 2: marrying in nineteen sixty eight. Before even returning to Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Judy and Lee Herron welcomed baby Amanda into the world
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen seventy four, followed by two sons in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: seventy eight and nineteen eighty three, Daniel and David, respectively.
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  Speaker 2: The couple was doing well. Lee had become president of
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  Speaker 2: Judy's father's business, the American Mortgage Company. Judy adored her
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  Speaker 2: children and opted to raise them as opposed to taking work.
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  Speaker 2: After David's birth in nineteen eighty three, she needed more
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  Speaker 2: room to do just that. Named after the plantation in
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  Speaker 2: the novel Gone with the Win, development on Collibill's Terra
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  Speaker 2: Plantation began in nineteen seventy seven at a relatively slow pace.
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  Speaker 2: The idea for the project came from former Dallas Cowboys
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  Speaker 2: defensive linemen Larry Cole, and includes homes from Victorian styled
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  Speaker 2: mansions to gigantic and more modern ranch style houses. The
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  Speaker 2: white picket fence surrounding the private subdivision is second only
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  Speaker 2: in appeal to its covered bridge entrance. The trails for
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  Speaker 2: residents to enjoy along Little Bear Creek are provided with
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  Speaker 2: a shade by one hundred plus year old post oak trees,
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  Speaker 2: pines and cedar olmes. This northeast Terrant County neighborhood was
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  Speaker 2: the perfect location for Fort Worth oil tycoons and Dallas
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  Speaker 2: executives alike. In nineteen eighty four, Judy and Lee Herron's
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  Speaker 2: five bedroom, five bath four thousand nine hundred eighty one
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  Speaker 2: square foot home on the four thousand block of Fairhill
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  Speaker 2: Court was completed and ready to move into. On the
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  Speaker 2: cul de Sac. The Heron house was one of the
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  Speaker 2: two completed in this relatively new section of Colleyville's Terra plantation.
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  Speaker 2: There was still plenty of undeveloped land around, and by
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  Speaker 2: November of nineteen eighty four, there were five houses under
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  Speaker 2: construction on Fairhill Court. During working hours, contractors and laborers
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  Speaker 2: were in and out of the area on a constant basis,
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  Speaker 2: and one resident that lived nearly and Judy Heron commented
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  Speaker 2: that this part of the neighborhood was so new even
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  Speaker 2: neighbors were strangers to one another. On Tuesday, November thirteenth,
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  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty four, ten year old Amanda was at school
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  Speaker 2: and Judy was at home looking after her six year
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  Speaker 2: old Daniel an eighteen month old David. What happened that
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  Speaker 2: day was reported in a specific way, the press, seemingly
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  Speaker 2: filling in detail to make the story easier to either
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  Speaker 2: digest or follow. According to early reports, Judy responded to
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  Speaker 2: a knock at the back door and was attacked when
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  Speaker 2: she opened it. However, it isn't known if there was
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  Speaker 2: actually a knock, or if she opened the door for
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  Speaker 2: some other reason and was attacked when she did. What
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  Speaker 2: is known or backed up by evidence, is that Judy,
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  Speaker 2: wearing her robe, opened the home's back door at about
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  Speaker 2: nine thirty am, immediately saw a man in fatigues and
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  Speaker 2: a ski mask, and attempted to slam the door shut,
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  Speaker 2: But the masked man kicked in the door as she did,
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  Speaker 2: and a struggle said to have been brief occurred. Though
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  Speaker 2: the exact sequence in which the following took place is unknown,
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  Speaker 2: Colliville detectives later surmised that this intruder tied up Judy
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  Speaker 2: and her son Daniel. He then, at some point untied Judy,
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  Speaker 2: strangled her to death the cord and left her body
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  Speaker 2: in the master bedroom's closet. This masked man's acts not
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  Speaker 2: depraved and monstrous enough. He then strangled six year old
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  Speaker 2: Daniel and left the boy for dead. After strangling thirty
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  Speaker 2: seven year old Judy Herron and her six year old
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  Speaker 2: son Daniel, the killer fled in Judy's nineteen eighty four
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  Speaker 2: jeep Cherokee. The mother had been choked to death, but
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  Speaker 2: little Daniel survived and regained consciousness. Injured and confused, the
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  Speaker 2: boy stumbled to a neighbor's house, who hurriedly called police.
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  Speaker 2: They arrived within minutes. Daniel was surprisingly calm for a
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  Speaker 2: child who had just gone through something so traumatic. He
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  Speaker 2: couldn't identify his mother's killer, but was able to give
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  Speaker 2: respect fond officers a brief description before being whisked away
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  Speaker 2: by ambulance to a Mid Cities hospital. The man, Daniel
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  Speaker 2: told them was white, was brandishing a small revolver, and
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  Speaker 2: wore a ski mask. The uniform the masked killer war
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  Speaker 2: was green. Police later said they believed this clothing to
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  Speaker 2: be army camouflage. Officers sent into the Heron home found
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  Speaker 2: eighteen month old David crawling through the house unharmed. Because
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  Speaker 2: this day was to be a routine one, Judy at
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  Speaker 2: home caring for Daniel and David, the home's state of
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  Speaker 2: the art burglar alarm hadn't been set that morning. In
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  Speaker 2: the back door entryway of the house, which led into
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  Speaker 2: a small utility room, police found broken glass nearby. In
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  Speaker 2: the kitchen, they found some spots of blood inspecting Judy's
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  Speaker 2: body at the scene in the closet of the master bedroom.
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  Speaker 2: Detectives noted that she didn't appear to have been beaten.
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  Speaker 2: The severe cuts on her wrists, however, is what indicated
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  Speaker 2: she'd been bound and unbound before she was strangled to death. Still,
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  Speaker 2: evidence at the scene clues pointing to the identity of
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  Speaker 2: the man who killed Judy Heron were scant. Lieutenant Linda
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  Speaker 2: Shaw of the Colleyville Police Department commented that they knew
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  Speaker 2: little more than that the back door of the Heron
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  Speaker 2: home was kicked in, Judy and Daniel were tied up,
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  Speaker 2: both strangled, and Daniel ran to a neighbor's house after
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  Speaker 2: the perpetrator fled. Their main witness was, of course, six
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  Speaker 2: year old Daniel at that time, added Detective Gene Ham,
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  Speaker 2: a witness who'd also been attacked and left for dead.
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  Speaker 2: It was the work, he said, of a very sick person.
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  Speaker 2: They believed there might be a few articles of jewelry,
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  Speaker 2: Detective Ham continued, and a little cash missing. While crime
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  Speaker 2: seen investigators poured over the Heron home area, law enforcement
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  Speaker 2: was rigorously looking for Judy's nineteen eighty four jeep Cherokee.
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  Speaker 2: Because this was the first step in what would prove
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  Speaker 2: to be a massive manhunt, authorities in Collyville enlisted the
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  Speaker 2: help of the county's largest department, a Fort Wurth police
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  Speaker 2: helicopter quickly located the stolen vehicle, abandoned almost two miles
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  Speaker 2: away from the Heron home off Bedford Road. The area
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  Speaker 2: on both sides of this road at the time was
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  Speaker 2: mostly thick with tall grass and heavy brush, with dense
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  Speaker 2: thickets of trees here and there, though sporadic lots were
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  Speaker 2: under development. Immediately upon the discovery of Judy's jeep, a
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  Speaker 2: crime scene unit was sent in to inspect the vehicle
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  Speaker 2: for fingerprints or other evidence. Fearing the suspect might be
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  Speaker 2: on foot and desperate, some officers advised onlookers to return
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  Speaker 2: to their home and locked their doors. Others theorized that
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  Speaker 2: the purp was long gone, that he'd fled in Judy's
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  Speaker 2: vehicle in ordered to quickly make it back to a
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  Speaker 2: getaway car. Other officers still suggested that Judy's killer posed
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  Speaker 2: as a construction worker and slipped by unnoticed at one
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  Speaker 2: of the many sites in the area being built. It
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  Speaker 2: was all speculation. There was no direct evidence of the
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  Speaker 2: killer's next steps. The likeliest of scenarios had the man
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  Speaker 2: ditching Judy's vehicle there and traveling by foot through the
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  Speaker 2: brushy and wooded fields along Little Bear Creek. Either way,
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  Speaker 2: there was still plenty of daylight to be had. After
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  Speaker 2: the discovery of the jeep, and for the rest of
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  Speaker 2: that day, Collibill residents and passers through witnessed the largest,
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  Speaker 2: most extensive man hunt in the city's otherwise low key history.
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  Speaker 2: All but immediately following the discovery of Judy Heron's nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty four jeep, chair, Collyville Police Chief Weldon Alexander called
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  Speaker 2: for the help of other area law enforcement jurisdictions to
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  Speaker 2: aid in his department's search. Besides every available Colliville officer,
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  Speaker 2: Arrant County Sheriff's Office deputies, Grapevine police, state troopers, and
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  Speaker 2: Fort Worth police made themselves available for the efforts. Searches
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  Speaker 2: covered the air via helicopter and the acres of brushy
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  Speaker 2: fields by foot and with bloodhounds. Colliville City employees barricaded
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  Speaker 2: roads and directed traffic armed with shotguns. Other armed city
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  Speaker 2: workers and authorities played the part of damage control, turning
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  Speaker 2: away the many sightseers from various investigative points of interest,
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  Speaker 2: juggling her duties, and quelling the fears of residence Corporal
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  Speaker 2: Linda Trueau commented that the city of Colliville has literally
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  Speaker 2: shut itself down. All of the city's employedmloyees hunting for
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  Speaker 2: a killer, from those closest to the scene to those
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  Speaker 2: miles down the main roads in any given direction. Area
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  Speaker 2: businesses were given a description of Judy Heron's killer and
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  Speaker 2: advised to shut and lock their doors for the day.
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  Speaker 2: All were given the same description that had already been
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  Speaker 2: blasted repeatedly over the police airwaves since shortly after the
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  Speaker 2: cops initially responded they were looking for a white man
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  Speaker 2: wearing army fatigues, boots and a ski mask. He's considered
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  Speaker 2: armed and extremely dangerous. Colliville elementary and middle school students
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  Speaker 2: were cautioned to stay after classes until their parents could
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  Speaker 2: retrieve them rather than walk home. Some stayed long past
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  Speaker 2: school hours, waiting late that afternoon. After finding no sign
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  Speaker 2: of their suspect, the Collyville Police ended their search efforts.
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  Speaker 2: Though an unnamed suspect was brought in for questioning for
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  Speaker 2: unknown reasons that afternoon. He was promptly eliminated and released.
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  Speaker 2: While law enforcement was in a frenzy trying to track
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  Speaker 2: down Judy's killer, her husband Lee Herron spent the day
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  Speaker 2: with neighbors and friends who attempted to comfort the man.
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  Speaker 2: He'd been notified by a neighbor just after the attack happened.
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  Speaker 2: When Lee arrived shortly after that, he sent eighteen month
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  Speaker 2: old David to stay with friends. Though he sought to
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  Speaker 2: enter his home before Judy's body was removed, only authorities
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  Speaker 2: would be allowed in during that time, they told him.
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  Speaker 2: When her body was taken away at around three thirty pm,
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  Speaker 2: Lee waited another hour before entering, since crime scene investigators
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  Speaker 2: were still in the process of collecting evidence, looking for
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  Speaker 2: Prince and combing the yard for clues. Husbands whose wives
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  Speaker 2: and children were home in the neighborhood also immediately left
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  Speaker 2: war as soon as they got word what had happened.
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  Speaker 2: Many reportedly said they didn't plan on going back to
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  Speaker 2: their jobs until the man who killed Judy Heron is captured.
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  Speaker 2: Folks who didn't own firearms before had purchased them that day.
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  Speaker 2: A couple three doors down from the Herons, in fact,
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  Speaker 2: had a new shotgun. By noon. Two streets away, vice
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  Speaker 2: president of a Dallas financial consulting company raced home and
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  Speaker 2: his ferrari after getting word from a neighbor that the
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  Speaker 2: cops were storming his house. His daughter apparently hadn't pulled
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  Speaker 2: the door completely shut when she left for school, and
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  Speaker 2: someone had reported the slightly ajar door to police. The
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  Speaker 2: cops kept a presence in the neighborhood that entire night,
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  Speaker 2: and residents who returned home after the sun went down
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  Speaker 2: asked officers to enter and check their homes before they
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  Speaker 2: went in. Eight Colleyville patrolmen remained at Terra Plantation or
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  Speaker 2: this particular purpose, while several police cruisers drove up and
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  Speaker 2: down the streets, keeping an eye out for anything out
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  Speaker 2: of the ordinary, often stopping cars. When it was all
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  Speaker 2: said and done, about forty residents had officers search their homes.
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  Speaker 2: The entire place was in a panic. Terra Plantation residents
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  Speaker 2: once felt safe in their homes, but now struggled with
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  Speaker 2: the fear that they could be targeted next.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody is afraid to go out at night or children
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  Speaker 1: to babysit anymore.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: We teach our children don't open the door to a stranger,
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  Speaker 1: and we've got to start following things like that ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: In other neighborhoods, as far down as even Arlington, people
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  Speaker 1: are turning on all their lights and locking their doors,
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  Speaker 1: and which they should be.
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  Speaker 4: It's kind of an ongoing fear. Like everything you do.
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  Speaker 4: Now you stop and think about the thing that really
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  Speaker 4: hits home to me is that we live in a
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  Speaker 4: kind of world where things like this happen, and I
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  Speaker 4: just kind of don't like living in that kind of world.
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  Speaker 4: I want the world I live in and my child
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  Speaker 4: lives in to be a better world.
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  Speaker 2: By the evening of Thursday, November fifteenth, nineteen eighty four,
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  Speaker 2: just two and a half days after Judy Heron was slain,
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  Speaker 2: a reward fund had already grown to north of fifty
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  Speaker 2: thousand dollars. The donations came from individuals and corporations alike,
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  Speaker 2: and Colleyville Police Chief Weldon Alexander had ordered reward posters made.
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  Speaker 2: The posters included the perpetrator's description and a twenty four
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  Speaker 2: hour hotline number in which callers could remain anonymous. The posters,
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  Speaker 2: ten thousand in all, were distributed to all area law
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  Speaker 2: enforcement agencies and local businesses throughout North Terrant County. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: the neighbor most likely to have gotten the best look
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  Speaker 2: at a suspect fleeing the Heron home. That day, a
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  Speaker 2: woman who said she can see the home from her
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  Speaker 2: kitchen window where she spends her mornings, had gone shopping.
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  Speaker 2: There were, however, witnesses. The Colleville police entertained the idea
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  Speaker 2: of hypnosis to obtain a better description of the perpetrator,
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  Speaker 2: and it's unclear if they ever went through with that,
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  Speaker 2: but ultimately witnesses supplied a decent recollection of the man's
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  Speaker 2: features outside the Heron home as he fled. Witnesses reported
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  Speaker 2: Judy's killer had removed his ski mask. The unknown suspect
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  Speaker 2: was described as standing anywhere from five feet seven inches
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  Speaker 2: tall to five feet eleven inches tall. He had blonde hair,
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  Speaker 2: blue eyes, and a blonde beard. His complexion was described
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  Speaker 2: as ruddy, and on his left cheek was a small
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  Speaker 2: scar or birthmark. Ultimately, there were several witnesses to support
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  Speaker 2: or add to this description. Some were neighbors and others
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  Speaker 2: construction workers. All reported seeing this man fleeing from the
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  Speaker 2: Heron home. Within days, a composite sketch was made, printed
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  Speaker 2: in newspapers and shown on television. The cops still didn't
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  Speaker 2: know for sure what the motive was to kill thirty
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  Speaker 2: seven year old Judy Heron. Some items in the home
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  Speaker 2: seemed to be missing, but they weren't sure and it
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  Speaker 2: wasn't much. But in the coming months, similar crimes in
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  Speaker 2: the region supplied police with a suspect and a possible motive.
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  Speaker 2: Less than two months after the murder of thirty seven
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  Speaker 2: year old Judy Carrol Herron, on Thursday January third, nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty five, a man knocked on the front door of
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  Speaker 2: a home on the thirty six hundred block of Lake
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  Speaker 2: Powell Drive near Lake Arlington. The home in this affluent Arlington,
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  Speaker 2: Texas neighborhood belonged to the Prewitt family. Homeowner Charles Prewitt,
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  Speaker 2: is a local home builder and son of a highly
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  Speaker 2: successful and wealthy contractor. On this particular day, the family's
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  Speaker 2: housekeeper and child caretaker, forty two year old Melba Hardy,
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  Speaker 2: was home alone with the Prewitt's children, four year old
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  Speaker 2: Greg and two year old Ashley. When the knock at
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  Speaker 2: the door came. Melba and the kids were in the
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  Speaker 2: home's den watching television. Melba got up and spoke to
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  Speaker 2: the man through the door. He was in his early
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  Speaker 2: thirties and wore a three piece businessman's suit and cowboy boots.
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  Speaker 2: He told the caretaker that he had a package to deliver. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Melba wasn't about to endanger the kids by opening the
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  Speaker 2: door to this strange man, so she told him to
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  Speaker 2: leave it on the porch and she'd retrieve it later.
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  Speaker 2: It isn't overly presumptuous to imagine that Melba was aware
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  Speaker 2: of the murder of Judy Herron the previous November, even
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  Speaker 2: if it did happen nineteen miles north in Colliville. She
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: likely knew that a violent monster who was capable of
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: harming young children was still on the loose. But this
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: delivery required a signature, the man told Melba, so she'd
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: have to at least crack the door to sign. Reluctantly,
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: she opened the door only so far as the safety
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: chain would allow. Without warning, the strange man kicked the
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: door and the chain's mount was ripped from the doorframe.
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: Melba's immediate thought was that he was there to either
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: kidnap or harm the children, so she began furiously struggling
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  Speaker 2: with this man in order to keep him from entering
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  Speaker 2: any further than the foyer, Even as the attacker held
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  Speaker 2: a long barreled revolver in his black gloved right hand.
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  Speaker 2: Where's Charlie, the man demanded, as Melba fought his advances
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: into the home. Obviously, this intruder knew who owned the house.
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  Speaker 2: Melbah replied that Charlie was in the bedroom, hoping the
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: man would flee, but he didn't buy it. He told
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Melba that if she would stop struggling and lay on
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: the floor with her hands behind her back, he wouldn't
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: harm her. I'm going to kill Charlie and Greg, the
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: man insisted, meaning the homeowner and his four year old son.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: He demanded Melba tell her where the boy was. This
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: all happened in a matter of moments, and the struggle
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: took Melba and the intruder into the living room and
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: then the kitchen, where he gained the upper hand. The
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: man forced Melba on her stomach, placed his pistol on
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: a chair directly next to them, and twisted her arm
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: behind her back. As he went for her other arm,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: presumably to bind her wrists, he noticed that four year
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: old Greg and two year old Ashley had made their
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: way to the kitchen and were watching helplessly. Immediately, his
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: efforts to bind Melba stopped as he intently stared at
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: the children. The caretaker later said, with hate in his eyes.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: This guy, however, screwed with the wrong woman. As quickly
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: as his focus changed from binding Melba to loathingly glaring
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: at the young children, the caretaker turned over, grabbed the
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: pistol from the chair, and yelled, oh my god, it's Charlie,
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: in an attempt to distract the intruder. It worked. The
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: man looked toward the front door, and when he did,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Melba charged him. The two began another struggle. Ultimately, Melba
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: could not fight this man off. He pried the weapon
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: out of her hand and pistol whipped her as he did.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: The weapon discharged, the bullet thankfully struck no one. Melba
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: was rendered unconscious as a result of the bludgeoning, and
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: the man fled the preu at home. Presumably he fled
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: because he feared the sound of the gunshot would cause
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: neighbors to alert the police. Not long after the strange
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: man made his getaway, Melba regained consciousness and found the
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: children safe and sound watching television. She called police and
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: was taken to an Arlington hospital for treatment. Her foot
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: was severely bruised and her right hand was broken. Melba
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: had many lacerations on her scalp and suffered a concussion.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: Arlington policeman Jim Willett interviewed this heroic woman while she
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: was being treated at the hospital, with her boss, Charles
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Prewitt in the room. From the description Melba gave and
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: the fact that he knew Charles and his son's names,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Prewitt suggested that the intruder was a subcontractor who'd worked
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: for him, a man named James Wesley Foot. The cops
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: quickly obtained Foot's driver's license photo, showed it to Melbourn,
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: and she identified him as the attacker. Arlington Police detective
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Mike Basillo obtained a warrant for Foot's arrest. The cops
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: theorized that Melba had thwarted the attempt at kidnapping of
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Pruitt's children, and just over a week later, detectives would
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: find out just how right they were. Forty one miles
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  Speaker 2: south of Collyville is Alvaredo in Johnson County, a place
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: that exemplifies Texas small town rural life. Bank of Alvaredo
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: board director Don McNeil was a wealthy banker and businessman.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: In fact, the man invented the little pal boasted the
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: best portable grill hand manufactured using solid steel at McNeil Enterprises,
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  Speaker 2: Incorporated in Alvaredo. The morning of Friday, January eleventh, nineteen
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: eighty five was a frigid one for North Texas, as
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: the temperatures sat a few degrees below freezing. As Don
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: McNeil's seventeen year old son Mark was driving his thirteen
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: year old sister, Amy and fourteen year old cousin to school.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: They turned down a Johnson County country road not too
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: far from Alvaredo city limits. Mark spotted a vehicle seemingly
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: come out of nowhere in his rear view mirror, and
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: it was coming upon his car fast. This vehicle sped
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: past Mark, his sister, and his cousin drove a little
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: way ahead of them, and screeched to a halt as
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: it cut off the road. This forced Mark to also
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: stop abruptly without hesitation. Three hooded men bolted from the
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: strange car and swarmed Marks. One of the men held
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: a soft off shotgun to the seventeen year old's head
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: as the other two removed his sister Amy from the vehicle.
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: They'd kill the thirteen year old. One of the men
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: told Mark if his parents so much as called the police,
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: the hooded men and threw Amy in their car and
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: sped off. This entire kidnapping took only seconds. Don McNeil
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: did contact the police about his abducted daughter, but Johnson
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: County authorities and the Texas Rangers remained silent about the
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: notification as they awaited instructions from the kidnappers. The call
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: came in quick. Although the audio is a little rough,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: here's a portion of it.
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  Speaker 3: Donn A I don't want no, FBI no or doesn't vot.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: You will not see your daughter again. Don't hurt my daughter.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: You understand, I understand and hurt.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Later, the kidnappers called Don back with instructions on where
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: to deliver the money, and they let the man talk
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: to his daughter.
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  Speaker 5: Hello, I love you.
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  Speaker 2: You okay, baby, and you're sure you're all right.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have nothing's bothered you anything. You know who
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: you are and where you're from.
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  Speaker 6: Now, you just keep your.
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: Lip up, your s Dan, your Daddy'll do whatever.
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  Speaker 3: Needs to be done.
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  Speaker 2: Take the one hundred dollars. They told the distraught father
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: to a telephone booth on Jim Miller Road in Dallas
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: at a convenience store called the road Runner. They'd contact
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: him there with further instructions, They told Don. Following the
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: kidnappers demands carefully, Don McNeil personally drove his limo to
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  Speaker 2: the Roadrunner, carrying a large bank bag with the cash.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Texas rangers were close behind, though they followed discreetly and
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: unmarked vehicles. At the Mesquite phone booth, the kidnappers called
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Don and told him to carry the money to another
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: telephone booth, this time at a Texico gas stay at
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  Speaker 2: Interstate twenty's Tyler exit or Highway sixty nine, about eighty
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: three miles east from the telephone booth. There, Don was
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  Speaker 2: instructed to drive sixty miles north to Interstate thirty and
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: fifteen miles east on thirty to Mount Pleasant. Seven miles
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: outside of Mount Pleasant was a closed golf service station,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: and Don was to get another call there. Don McNeil
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: had been pushing his limousine to the limits, driving nearly
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: the entirety of these three routes at speeds exceeding one
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: hundred miles per hour. By the time he arrived at
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: the Gulf station, his limo was toasted, the engines smoking
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: at the payphone there, Don told the kidnappers that he
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: couldn't drive anywhere else, they'd have to come to him.
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: For an hour, the frantic father waited until a dark
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: colored buick entered the golf station parking lot, slowly drove
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: by the burned out limousine and got back on the
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: highway heading west. As the suspicious buick made its way
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: to the on bound ramp, it passed Texas Rangers, who
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: began pursuing the vehicle on westbound Interstate thirty. They didn't
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: know at first if this car belonged to the kidnappers,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: though it seemed likely, and the Texas Rangers wanted to
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: follow through with the pursuit while keeping discreet about it.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: But the buick darted in front of a diesel rig
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: and onto an exit ramp. It was perfect timing on
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: their part. The rangers had a cattle truck to their
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: right and couldn't pass in front of or slow down
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: behind it in time to make the exit. They radioed
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: the rangers and the vehicle trailing behind and told them
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: to exit, however, and to go ahead and stop the buick.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: The now lead pursuer slapped his single flashing light on
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: the roof of his car and flicked it on. Texas
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: rangers then found out they were indeed following the right guys.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: As soon as the flashing light went up, the Buicks
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: windows rolled down and men appeared out them, pointing shotguns
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: at the cops car. They opened fire, and the rangers
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: vehicle caught fire. It's not clear what was going through
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: the kidnappers' minds here, but if they were thinking they'd
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: shake off the cops by doing this, they were dead wrong.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: In fact, the result was strikingly the opposite. Within minutes,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: other Texas Rangers, the Johnson County Sheriff, the FBI, and
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: Texas Department of Public Safety helicopters were on these guys trail.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: The chase, which stretched several counties at speeds well over
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: one hundred miles per hour, finally came to a dramatic
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: conclusion near Saltilla, Texas. There, in the driveway of a
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: rural residents, the kidnappers Buick stopped and the passengers began firing.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: Two fled the car and hurried to a van parked there,
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: shooting at police from underneath. As bullets fired by law
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: enforcement ricocheted off the concrete driveway. Before long, two of
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: the kidnappers were struck by bullets, one in his elbow
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: and another his foot. Knowing they were outgunned and outnumbered,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: not to mention injured, the kidnappers surrendered. A deputy who
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: joined in on the chase, rushed the buick. Inside was
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: a female kidnapper who surrendered without incident, and thirteen year
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: old Amy McNeil, who was luckily unharmed. The radio don
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: McNeil and told him his daughter was safe. After being
• 34:41
  Speaker 2: held captive for forty five hours, the kidnappers, four men
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: and one woman were taken into custody. Among them was
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: thirty four year old James Wesley Foot, who had invaded
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: the Lake Arlington home of Charles Pruitt a little more
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: than a week prior, but was fought off by ca
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: caretaker Melba Hardy. According to the thirteen year old captive,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Foot was the ringleader of the kidnapping for ransom operation.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: As he exchanged fire with the cops, Amy McNeil said
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: he attempted to use the young girl as a shield.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: The five were charged in Johnson County with the aggravated
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: kidnapping of Amy, along with two counts of attempted capital
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: murder for firing upon officers. James Wesley FOOTE was charged
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: in Arlington with burglary, aggravated assault, and attempted kidnapping for
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: his intrusion of the preu at home. Back in Colleyville,
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: detectives were quite interested in comparing the Johnson County and
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Arlington cases with their case, the murder of Judy Heron.
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: When they questioned Foot, he denied involvement, but admitted to
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: working as a carpenter in the terraplantation days before the
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: slang James Wesley foot was addicted to methanphetamines, he told police.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: He said this in a way that made it appear
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: as it was an excuse. Colliville authorities had received hundreds
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: of tips concerning Judy Heron's murder after they set up
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: the anonymous tip line immediately following the crime. When another
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: tip came in after Foot's arrest, detectives got a warrant
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: to search the man's home. There they collected a wicker basket, newspapers,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: a T shirt, some bullets, and other items they never disclosed.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: Lieutenant Linda Shaw told reporters that she couldn't say exactly
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: why they searched Foot's home, but she did say that
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: several items would be sent out for testing. They were
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: taking James Wesley Foot's potential involvement in Judy Heron's murder
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: very seriously, Lieutenant Shaw added, since the case remains unsolved
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: at the time of this recording in September of twenty twenty,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: presumably any testing performed on the seized items did not
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: link Foot to Judy Slang. In March of nineteen eighty five,
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Foot was sentenced to life in prison for the aggravated
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: kidnapping with deadly weapon of Amy O'Neal, and forty eight
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: years for the four charges of attempted capital murder the
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: shootout with police. He also got ten years for the
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: possession of a prohibited weapon, the sought off shotgun he
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: was using. Eventually, he was also charged and convicted for
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: his assault against Melba Hardy. He got twenty five years
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: for that. Just after arriving at a Huntsville prison unit,
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: Foot was brought back to a Johnson County jail for
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: more questioning in the Judy Heron case. The man had
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: blonde hair, blue eyes, and a ruddy complexion. Like witnesses
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: described the man fleeing Judy's home, but had no scar
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: or birthmark on his leftiek, which was seemingly unmistakable on
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Judy's killer. This inconsistency was the reason some investigators had
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: their doubts that Foot was their guy. That and the
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: fact that they had no physical evidence linking him after
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: failing a polygraph examination concerning Judy's slang. Foot escaped from
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: the Johnson County jail in the summer of nineteen eighty five.
• 38:25
  Speaker 6: And this was a pretty day, sunshining, and we brought
• 38:28
  Speaker 6: him out in the exercise yard far to exercise, and
• 38:31
  Speaker 6: he went over the chain link fence and through the
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: bablir as far as we can tail.
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: He was on the lamb for eight days until authorities
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: finally caught up with him in Blossom, Texas, a tiny
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: little town about one hundred and fifty miles northeast of Cleeburn,
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: where he escaped. Foot's capture was the result of a
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: tip and kidnapping victim. Amy O'Neill's father, Dawn, slipped Johnson
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: County Sheriff Eddie bogg bucks to give to this tipster.
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: Sheriff Boggs was ready to get rid of the apprehended fugitive.
• 39:08
  Speaker 5: He's not gonna be here long. He's gonna be like
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: the first thing in the morning. He's gonna be transferred
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: to back to TDC and be back in their custody.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: James Wesley Foot's name came up again in nineteen ninety six,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: as Colliville Detective Rex Phelps began reinvestigating the Judy Heron case.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Accompanied by a Texas ranger, Phelps visited Foot at the
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: Texas Department of Corrections Michael unit. The detective was armed
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: with a court order, Foot had no choice but to
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: supply him with three vials of blood and ten strands
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: of hair. Two weeks later, Detective Phelps returned and confronted
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: James Foot, telling him his hair matched hair found on
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: a pair of gloves used in the heir and slang.
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: Foot claim that Phelps' attempts here were a bluff. If
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: his DNA matched some hypothetical hair, Foot said he'd already
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: be in Terrant County facing indictment. Almost ten years later,
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: on January fifteenth, twenty ten, Detective Phelps and two other
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: Colleyville policemen visited James Wesley Foot. According to the inmate,
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Phelps said that he should feel remorse by now for
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: Judy's murder and should go ahead and take a plea deal.
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: Foot replied, according to him, that he wasn't going to
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: take any plea for a crime he did not commit.
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: He said he was taken out of a pre release
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: program he was in because of this confrontation, and that
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: his parole has been denied ever since because of the
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: suspicion on him for Colleville's fourth ever murder. But the
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: word of James Wesley Foot is difficult to trust. This
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: man who used a thirteen year old girl he kidnapped
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: for ransom as a human shield during a shootout with
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: the cops a week after attacking a child caretaker of
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: a four year old boy he threatened to kill. Still,
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: no evidence exists tying him to the slang of Judy Heron.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: If you have any information about the Judy Heron case,
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: please contact Colleville p d At eight one seven five
• 41:27
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• 41:32
  Speaker 2: Bee for bringing our attention to Judy's case. Sean became
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: close to the family after babysitting Judy and Lee's kids regularly,
• 41:41
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• 41:47
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