Latest / Gone Cold - Texas True Crime / The Murder of Cheryl Callaway Part 3: No Closer…
Transcript
- 0:08Magic mirror on the wall. Who are the most rotten ones of all?
- 0:16Hello, my darlings, and welcome to Rotten to the core. Here we
- 0:21will scribe into the past and discover some rotten apples throughout our history. Have
- 0:28no fear, my pretties, for we shall learn a lesson not only about
- 0:33their horrendous deeds, but also about our own power. Let's step out of
- 0:39the shadow of the past and help pull it towards the light. I am
- 0:44your host, Josh Waters, and I'll be the queen guiding you on our
- 0:49journey. Now, come along, DearS, we have lessons to learn.
- 0:54History is waiting the gone cold. Podcasts may contain violent or graphics subject matter.
- 1:04Listener discretion is advised. There's something in every job you seek. Arlington
- 1:11Police detective Sergeant Dennis Roten told fort Worth Star telegrams Denise Hensley in a six
- 1:19year anniversary article about eighteen year old Cheryl Anne Calloway's case. I seek Calloway's
- 1:26murderer. I just hope he's not dead so I can get him. Sergeant
- 1:30Roton remarked in nineteen eighty that Cheryl Calloway was a household name. In nineteen
- 1:36seventy four. The community was in shock and infuriated then, but now folks
- 1:42no longer remembered, but he did, the detective told the article's author.
- 1:49Roton was a patrolman when Cheryl was slain, and was admittedly over zealous in
- 1:55his attempts to find her killer's vehicle at the time, once pulling over in
- 2:00questioning the same car a second time. Luckily, the driver of the vehicle
- 2:05was understanding when the officer explained that he wasn't trying to harass him. Sergeant
- 2:10Wroten, although correct in a general sense, perhaps meaning the public at large
- 2:16had gone about their lives to rarely think of the horrific ice Pick murder as
- 2:22it became known, he was incorrect about folks no longer remembering, even after
- 2:28going on to other jobs in the area. Initial investigators Mike Lehman and Mike
- 2:34Adair remembered Cheryl two They got to know Cheryl's family and, by proxy,
- 2:39Cheryl herself. Her case was the only one they couldn't solve. We were
- 2:46I can't even tell you how many major cases. There were many. We
- 2:50had a city councilman, Sonder got killed. We saw that we had a
- 2:54real who done it? Where there were five victims, all killed in a
- 2:58drug deal. I mean, there's a lot of cases, but it's interesting
- 3:01to me how the woman really stands out. You did solve, but it
- 3:07certainly wasn't for a lack of trying. When it was all said and done,
- 3:12detective Laymen and Sergeant Adair followed hundreds upon hundreds of leads, and that's
- 3:17not including the twenty thousand or so Chevy Monty Carlows and ultomobile cutlasses they tracked
- 3:23down by ven numbers, then narrowing those down by zip code. It was
- 3:30a shot in the dark since they didn't know if the vehicle had even been
- 3:34purchased in the area. Hypnosis and clairvoyance tactics used by the department out of
- 3:40desperation during what Sergeant A. Dare called the straw grasping period, also produced
- 3:47nothing new, nothing to draw them closer to Cheryl's killer. No one had
- 3:53been above suspicion back then, and lacking many of the advancements and forensic technology
- 4:00we have today, plenty were cleared simply as the result of a polygraph examination.
- 4:06It's a difficult thing to understand these days, but if you didn't have
- 4:11any other evidence against a person who passed one. It was difficult to justify
- 4:15spending manpower and resources simply based on a hunch or a rumor. The initial
- 4:24investigation into the murder of Cheryl Anne Calloway, the hunt for the cowardly madman
- 4:29responsible was the most expensive in Arlington police history. According to Captain Bobby Wiggins,
- 4:36we talked to Grand Prairie Police Department, Dallas Police Farm in Fort Worth,
- 4:43gave them the information that we had. We talked to Cheryl's co workers
- 4:48to make sure that there wasn't something going on there. You know, well,
- 4:53I think we pretty well ruled out any kind domestic type situation boyfriend ex
- 4:58boyfriend, that type of time. We started checking ANYMO that might fit that
- 5:04type of thing, and uh we came up dry there. We kept striving
- 5:10the information. We went through NCIC, through the FBI nationwide for you know,
- 5:17that type of serial killer type person, and we started checking down as
- 5:24sex offenders and uh we just we pretty well came up dry just every avenue
- 5:28that we took. We we even went to General Motors and started trying to
- 5:32find where vehicles had been shipped match that description. We didn't do any good
- 5:38there. Of course, there were thousands of those. There was a real
- 5:42popular make vehicle. It's never did really develop anything. We checked color schemes,
- 5:47and you know, you're talking about thousands and thousands of vehicles going all
- 5:51over the United States. I feel pretty good about the fact that we covered
- 5:58every angle we could that there may be we didn't, you know. And
- 6:02then there were Cheryl's many friends. They certainly never forgot. Even today,
- 6:09fifty years later, plenty of Cheryl's friends still think of her often, as
- 6:14we've seen from social media posts and messages we've received. Cheryl's fiance Clint Harris,
- 6:21also never forgot. The marquis at the Dairy Queen, where they were
- 6:27both employed, was testament to that, offering a message of love to Cheryl
- 6:31for at least a dozen months after her murder, according to some, but
- 6:36eventually he relocated to California to help quell the daily reminders of what could have
- 6:43been. The Callaway family, of course, also anguished about Cheryl's murder.
- 6:48Daily there appeared to be there appeared to be no motive, none that anyone
- 6:55knew of at least, and the incessant question of why, the nagging un
- 6:59so certainty only kept the wound from healing. They didn't believe the killer was
- 7:04anyone who knew her. That just didn't make any sense to them. Last
- 7:11episode, we explored the lack of evidence and motive the reasons detectives believed a
- 7:16stranger was the murderer. There may also be evidence, albeit circumstantial, that
- 7:24suggests otherwise. The overkill murder of eighteen year old Cheryl Anne Callaway was unlike
- 7:39any other that had taken place in the Dallas Fort Worth Arlington metroplex in the
- 7:44nineteen seventies. Cases that involved similar victims young petite women and girls. The
- 7:53dates when they occurred late January and throughout February couldn't even begin to link.
- 7:59The irving woman Barbara Mormon was abducted, stabbed in the neck, and strangled
- 8:05to death. Her body dumped in an isolated part of grape Vine in February
- 8:11of nineteen seventy one. In February nineteen seventy three, Becky Martin was kidnapped
- 8:18from a Fort Worth College campus by someone unknown. Her skeletal remains were found
- 8:24several weeks later in a rural area. Becky's cause of death could not be
- 8:30determined. Just five days into February of nineteen seventy four, and six days
- 8:37after Sheryl Callaway was murdered in Arlington, Fort Worth woman Euretta Franks was stabbed
- 8:43to death by a doped up and violent Michael Foster Vines. A few weeks
- 8:48later, Carla Walker was abducted by Glenn Samuel McCurley from a Bowling Alley parking
- 8:54lot. Her body was found three and a half days later in a rural
- 8:58area. In February of nineteen seventy seven, June Ward's body was found on
- 9:05the curb at the one thousand block of West Fuller Avenue in Fort Worth.
- 9:11She'd been strangled and bludgeoned with a heavy sharp object such as a hatchet,
- 9:16by someone unknown. The body of Lesia Magee, who'd been stabbed and her
- 9:22throat slashed by an officially unknown assailant, was found in the trunk of her
- 9:28car in January of nineteen seventy eight. Like June Ward, Lesha had car
- 9:33trouble and is believed to have been killed by someone who posed as a good
- 9:37Samaritan. While all of these crimes were performed as if the perpetrator was of
- 9:45hell, none quite matched the rage in which Cheryl was killed, except perhaps
- 9:52June and Lesha. So in Cheryl's case, why the passionate rage if her
- 9:58killer was a complete stranger. Hi, it's me, Alice. I want
- 10:13to personally thank you for supporting me with dear cookie purchases last week. I
- 10:18also wanted to let you know that throughout cookie season, Girl Scouts accept cookie
- 10:24donations for our Cookies for Heroes program. Each year, our troop hand delivers
- 10:31cookies to our local fire and police departments to thank them for their service.
- 10:37Donations have been a little slow this year, and if you would like to
- 10:41donate, please consider clicking the link in this episode's show notes. Oh and
- 10:46there's still a few weeks to buy yourself some cookies as well. Thank you
- 10:50for supporting me, my troop, and the Girl Scouts have a wonderful day.
- 10:56We spoke with Steve Harris, the younger brother of Cheryl Callaway's fiancee,
- 11:03Clint Harris, but before we hear from him, it's important to discuss the
- 11:07known facts that perhaps support some of what Steve and I spoke about. In
- 11:16Denise Hensley's six year anniversary article published on February tenth, nineteen eighty. The
- 11:22story's intended purpose, at least as far as Sergeant Dennis Roton was concerned,
- 11:28was to get things moving on the case again, and it worked. Later
- 11:33that month, a note pertaining to Cheryl's case was slipped under the door of
- 11:37the Arlington Police station. The only writing on the note was a license plate
- 11:43number. It was a new clue that went nowhere, and one of many
- 11:48to come. That was among what Arlington Police Sergeant Roton would call a sprinkling
- 11:52of bad leads in Cheryl's case. It was, unfortunately par for the course,
- 12:00but other leads to come, along with information obtained since began to tell
- 12:05a story. Witnesses who said they were at a car wash at Collins Street
- 12:11and Arkansas Lane on the evening of Cheryl's murder came forward. These witnesses say
- 12:18that on that night they observed a young woman arguing with a man there.
- 12:24This is the same car wash Cheryl stopped at. A friend who said they
- 12:28spoke with eighteen year old Cheryl at Woolco discount store shortly before she was murdered
- 12:35told detectives that Cheryl was upset about a heated argument she'd had with someone at
- 12:39the car wash, and that during the altercation, Cheryl had splashed water on
- 12:45the man's new car. It isn't clear what the argument was about, or
- 12:50if Cheryl even gave her friend the details, i e. Whether or not
- 12:54she knew the man with whom she was exchanging the cross words. Woolcoe was
- 13:01located at Pioneer Parkway and New York Avenue, which Cheryl would have had to
- 13:05pass on her way to Forum three oh three Mall from the car wash at
- 13:09Collins and Arkansas, which is where she stopped, so the location, as
- 13:15far as her theorized route checks out. Other witnesses had placed a man pacing
- 13:22in front of the Montgomery Ward Department store at Forum three oh three Mall,
- 13:26where Cheryl had parked. This man was presumably in an agitated state. Perhaps
- 13:33the altercation Cheryl had with the man at the car wash led him to follow
- 13:37her, lie in wait and attack the eighteen year old, leaving her dead
- 13:43in the parking lot. Sergeant Rowton was confident that at least the man pacing
- 13:50was tied to Cheryl's slaying. I believe he intended to take the girl with
- 13:54him. The evidence points to that. He said suggesting it was an abduction
- 14:00attempt. Now, whether he wanted Cheryl Callaway in particular or just anyone,
- 14:05we can't say. Also in nineteen eighty, a few months after the sixth
- 14:11anniversary article ran, a letter addressed to reporter Denise Hensley was delivered to the
- 14:18offices of the four or Star Telegram. It read, the man who murdered
- 14:24that girl in the parking lot is named redacted an address accompanied the name.
- 14:31Hensley, of course, took the letter to the Arlington Police. Though skeptical
- 14:35of its validity, Sergeant Wroten was diligent about following any and every lead.
- 14:43The man named in the letter owned a nineteen seventy three black over white vehicle
- 14:48that matched the suspects, according to the person who wrote it. When Sergeant
- 14:54Wroton visited the implicated man, the lawman discovered that the man had been still
- 15:00and questioned near Forum three three just after the murder happened. He had told
- 15:05police in nineteen seventy four that he was just out for a drive going no
- 15:11place in particular, and told Sergeant Wroton in nineteen eighty that he washed his
- 15:16car after speaking with police. That was a strange thing. To mention to
- 15:20say the least, this man took a polygraph and was unfortunately cleared as the
- 15:26result. It's unclear if this man was or these men were described in a
- 15:33way that was similar to the man the very reliable witnesses who saw Cheryl Callaway
- 15:39being killed. What we discussed was Steve Harris, the younger brother of Cheryl's
- 15:46fiance Clint Harris. Is difficult to ignore. First, we'll give you an
- 15:52idea of how well Steve Harris knew Cheryl, and as a result, you'll
- 15:58get to know Cheryl a little better too. Yeah. Well, it was
- 16:02at the Dairy Queen, the three or three Dairy Queen. I was working
- 16:07there and I think I was fourteen or so, working with Ryl, and
- 16:14we were just friends, you know, like anybody you've ever talked to about.
- 16:18She's just a lovely person, just a joy to be around, you
- 16:22know, just had that infectious smile and just enjoyed being around it. You
- 16:29know, I thought, too ascute. And then I got an opportunity to
- 16:33transfer over to the division and Bowen Door as an assistant manager. So I
- 16:41move over there. Cheryl's two years older than and so again I can't remember
- 16:48for I was fourteen hours fifteen, but she was driving, and every once
- 16:52in a while she'd just drive over with one of her friends. Sometimes it
- 16:56was Sharie, who was her best friend, and you know, we visit
- 17:02and talk and whatever. And one night I'm in the back cleaning and she
- 17:08shows up and walks in the back and she walks straight up to me and
- 17:12gives me this big kiss, and which you know, I was flattered and
- 17:18enjoyed. And that's when our little romance began. And I wish I could
- 17:25give you a better timeline. I just know I wasn't driving, and she
- 17:29was driving, and it was this you know, puppy love kind of thing.
- 17:33And I think it lasted maybe six or eight weeks, and then she
- 17:37broke up with me. You know, my little heart was broken at first,
- 17:41but I go on and now I've got, you know, a new
- 17:45girlfriend. And I mean, she could have had another boyfriend in between me
- 17:48and Quint. It's just what I do know is after me and Quint got
- 17:53together, that Christmas, who was pretty big Christmas for all of us,
- 18:00you know, we all had money and could buy everybody in the family gifts,
- 18:03and and Cheryl came over and was part of that Christmas celebration. You
- 18:08know, she was she was part of the family already. Then a couple
- 18:12of weeks later, I don't know exactly, but it was in January.
- 18:17I'm the big Joni Mitchell fan, and Clint and Cheryl knew and and just
- 18:22one evening out of the blue, come home and Clinton and Cheryl come by
- 18:27and gave me for nothing. I'm just a gift. Just gave me Joni
- 18:33Mitchell's latest album. I mean, that's how I met Cheryl, and that's
- 18:37part of how she was in my life, and how how come she means
- 18:44so much to me. She meant something to me as a friend, and
- 18:47then in that little puppy love kind of thing, you know, I always
- 18:51held her in my heart. Steve, like his brother Clint, was crushed
- 18:56when Cheryl was murdered. Ool. This is always the tough one for me,
- 19:03Vincent, And I told this to Ally. She chose not to air,
- 19:08which I'm glad because it makes it more about me, because it's all
- 19:14from my perspective, but it's about Cheryl. But it's from my perspective.
- 19:19And I'll tell you exactly what happened. It It burned in my brain it's
- 19:23burned in my soul. I had, for some reason, fallen asleep early,
- 19:30and I had actually put on that Joni Mitchell album that Clint and Cheryl
- 19:37had given to me. I'd put it on and I'd fallen asleep, and
- 19:41my sister burst into my room and says Clinton on the phone. So I
- 19:47pick up my phone. I don't know if you've ever done this or seeing
- 19:51anybody do this, but you know, sometimes somebody's laughing about something. You
- 19:56don't know what they're laughing about, but you just kind of started laughing and
- 20:00with him. So I pick up the phone and it sounds like Clint is
- 20:03just cracking up. So I start to laugh a little bit with him.
- 20:08And then I realized he's hysterical. I mean, he's hysterical. And you
- 20:18know, he gets out that Cheryl was killed. He did not use the
- 20:22word murder. He said Cheryl was killed at the mall, and in my
- 20:26brain I automatically think, oh, my gosh, she was in a car
- 20:30wreck at the mall. So I, you know, can't drive cars.
- 20:37Carter's not there anyway, So I call Clint's best friend, you call him
- 20:41Blue. I hate to use that. I hate that nickname. I always
- 20:47knew him as Kurt. But anyway, so I called Kurt at work and
- 20:53got lucky and he was He said, yeah, I just got a phone
- 20:56with Clint. I'm clothing store down and I'm leaving. I said, well,
- 21:00come come pick us up, so, you know, close down the
- 21:04house and stand outside waiting and Kirk comes screaming in. Kurt again just drives
- 21:11like a madman, breaking every vehicle law as there is. And the quickest
- 21:18way to get to the Jerry Queen was to cut through the Pizza hot parking
- 21:22lot, which Kurt did, which man, he went flying over this two
- 21:26and a half foot retaining wall. The lights are all off. The dairy
- 21:33queen Klint is again hysterical, just out of his mind, and he gets
- 21:40in the car and starts talking, and that's when I learned that she was
- 21:45murdered. That's when it all kind of becomes surreal. And again Kurt just
- 21:52drives as fast as he can, doesn't just get to the hospital. Last
- 22:08episode, we briefly discussed a friend, schoolmate and football player at Sam Houston
- 22:15High School who graduated with Cheryl. After interviewing the victim's friends and family,
- 22:22detectives discovered that this person had shown interest in dating her. To my understanding,
- 22:27they never actually did date. This individual, who will call Bobby for
- 22:33our purposes, went on to study at Baylor University, where he played football
- 22:40for the Bears. In his football career there, Bobby received accolades for his
- 22:45role in conference wins, some of which as a freshman. He was the
- 22:49first. Bobby anyway fit the description of the person who murdered Cheryl, and
- 22:56fit it well. He was tall, with an athletic build, wore fashionable
- 23:00clothing, and sported a medium length afro. Apparently, Bobby also, you're
- 23:07a white tetlist with a dark top. Of course, matching a suspect description
- 23:15is hardly enough to suggest that person is your man. But considering the other
- 23:22witness accounts, the folks at the car wash who witnessed a heated argument between
- 23:26a man and someone fitting Cheryl's description, and her friend at Wolco who said
- 23:32Cheryl was upset by the altercation, it is interesting the fact that Cheryl splashed
- 23:38water on this man's car during the argument. Well. After speaking with several
- 23:44people, every one of them said that they were much more likely to do
- 23:48such a thing if the person they were arguing with was someone they knew.
- 23:52Perhaps the entire car wash incident was based upon Cheryl's refusal of Bobby's advancements toward
- 24:00her. Still more evidence is needed. An all spelled awl is a tool
- 24:08used by crafts persons to mark or puncture holes in leather, upholstery, wood,
- 24:15or other work. They come in different links. Some are straight,
- 24:19and some the pickpart curved or bent in different ways for different uses. On
- 24:26the auls that are straight, the pick part of the tool is virtually indistinguishable
- 24:32from an ice pick, while the handle may or may not be, depending
- 24:36on the manufacturer or the time in which it was produced. You'll hear Steve
- 24:41refer to the all as a dowling tool in the following audio, and some
- 24:47simply call it a pick. There's reason to believe Bobby either owned such a
- 24:52tool or had easy access to one. How many people do you know that
- 25:00drive around with an ice pick in their vehicle? I mean, yes,
- 25:06you're going to a party, whatever, you got a bag of eyes,
- 25:08and but I mean you're just driving around town and you happen to have an
- 25:12ice pick in your vehicle? How many people? What are the odds it's
- 25:18very slim, but if you work in leather, that downing tool is part
- 25:25of your livelihood and that's what this kid did. He worked at it was
- 25:32on the vision I think it was called Arlington Glass and Leather or Leather and
- 25:37Glass. That's where this kid worked. He had access to a dowlling tool.
- 25:44In Cheryl's case, if it was an act performed as the result of
- 25:48a rejection or perceived slight, it both makes sense and is senseless. At
- 25:53the same time, Cheryl Callaway's murder didn't have to be pre planned as as
- 26:00in the perpetrator spent days or weeks strategizing. The killer could have simply pre
- 26:06planned boxing her in between his and her car during the time she was in
- 26:11the mall. It's by understanding the police had believed that he would have kept
- 26:15on stabbing and it not broken off. Over the years, Steve Harris has
- 26:22pushed the Arlington Police to reinvestigate Cheryl's case again. Forensic technologies were terribly lacking
- 26:30in nineteen seventy four, and even when subsequent detectives took over the case.
- 26:34Sergeant Dennis Roten in late nineteen seventy nine and Arlington Police legend jim Ford sometime
- 26:41in the eighties, they cleared folks using polygraphs unless they had evidence other than
- 26:49results provided by a notoriously unreliable machine, of which Bobby was cleared, they
- 26:56had to direct resources and manpower elsewhere. When the nineteen nineties rolled around,
- 27:03DNA was being used in criminal investigations, meaning Cheryl's killer might be easily identified,
- 27:11but there was a huge problem. Desperate from the years of investigation with
- 27:19no solid leads, the cops were feeling uncertain about their witnesses. Some began
- 27:26questioning whether Cheryl Ann Callaway's killer was a black male, with one unidentified detective
- 27:34actually suggesting it might have been a woman. He cited only the witness's description
- 27:41of what he called a feminine blouse as his reasoning. To be clear,
- 27:45witnesses didn't describe it as feminine, only that it had ruffles and a flower
- 27:51print. In nineteen eighty one, when now infamous serial killer Ted Bundy was
- 27:57being scrutinized for trimes across the United States, Sergeant Rowton took notice. He
- 28:04noted that an ice pick was found among Bundy's tools upon his Utah arrest,
- 28:11and that he was convicted of the attempted murder of a woman he had kidnapped
- 28:15from a Utah Mall parking lot. It appeared Sergeant Rowton was going through the
- 28:21same period initial investigators had gone through, grasping at straws any straw. Upon
- 28:27investigating the possibility that Bundy was responsible for Sheryl Callaway's murder, Sergeant Roton discovered
- 28:34that Bundy had deposited an unemployment check into his Seattle bank account two days prior
- 28:41on January twenty eighth, nineteen seventy four, used a credit card to purchase
- 28:45gasoline in Seattle the following day, and abducted his first known victim on either
- 28:52late January thirty first or early February first. The activity eliminated Bundy. For
- 29:00good measure, Roten sent off the print found on Cheryl's car to compare it
- 29:04against Bundy's. The print, apparently a partial, couldn't be linked to Bundy
- 29:11or anyone else. No Texas murder committed before nineteen eighty three, it seems,
- 29:18would be complete without serial confessor Henry Lee Lucas considered as a suspect while
- 29:26visiting Arlington on one of his rock star like tours. Courtesy of the Texas
- 29:32Rangers and Williamson County Sheriff Jim Boutwell. Sergeant Roton said he had an uncanny
- 29:37memory of two of the crimes he admitted to there. Lucas was in a
- 29:42Michigan State penitentiary at the time of Cheryl's murder, according to Jim Maddox's Lucas
- 29:48Report, and could not have been responsible for her murder. It's unclear if
- 29:55police investigated potential links to other killers area killer, who, like Bundy and
- 30:00Lucas, didn't match the suspect description given by the credible witnesses. A man
- 30:07named Michael Foster Vines stabbed two women to death in Fort Worth one just days
- 30:14after Cheryl Anne Calloway was murdered. He'd previously killed a woman in Illinois as
- 30:21well. All the murders Vines said were the result of drug fueled psychosis.
- 30:29A man named Danny Paul Bible killed three women and an infant in Texas and
- 30:33Louisiana and had strong ties to Weatherford, just west of Fort Worth. One
- 30:40of the women was killed with an ice pick. Still, the couple who
- 30:45witnessed Cheryl's murder were adamant in their description of the killer. And initial Detective
- 30:51Sergeant Mike Adair was clear that they were trustworthy and reliable. They certainly got
- 30:57close enough to be able to describe but Cheryl's killer accurately. In nineteen ninety
- 31:04police announced that Cheryl's case was again being reviewed using new technologies, though what
- 31:11exactly was being done wasn't expounded upon. What has been made clear recently is
- 31:18that the evidence in the case has been lost. Some say due to a
- 31:22problem with refrigeration, others say a flood occurred and destroyed it, and others
- 31:29still say that the evidence was transferred to the DA's office for a time and
- 31:33when Arlington Police requested it to be returned, it was nowhere to be found.
- 31:41It's an incredibly good bet that the killer's DNA could have been found among
- 31:45Cheryl's fingernail clippings since she fa hard. Another attempt was made in two thousand
- 31:52and one to reopen the case. This time Detective John Stanton relayed to the
- 31:57press his hope that the latent fingerprint lifted from Cheryl's freshly washed car holds the
- 32:05key to solving the murder. We've got a fingerprint that's never been through the
- 32:08system. Who knows maybe we'll get a match, he said. Cheryl's mother,
- 32:15Rose struggles with the fact that no one has been brought before justice for
- 32:21her daughter's murder. She's ninety four years old at the time of this recording.
- 32:27Police did what they could, she thought, as did Cheryl's father,
- 32:30Billy. Billy died in two thousand and one. Though anniversary stories keeping Cheryl
- 32:37Callaway's name and case in the public eye have been few and far in between
- 32:43since nineteen seventy four, the many detectives who work the case over the years
- 32:49have never forgotten, nor has Steve Harris, who alone prompted this year's anniversary
- 32:54coverage. The latest include short stories on NBC five, I DFW and in
- 33:00the Fort Worth Star Telegram, both in twenty twenty four on the fiftieth anniversary
- 33:07of her murder. If you have any information about the nineteen seventy four murder
- 33:15of eighteen year old Cheryl Ann Callaway, please contact the Arlington Police Department's Homicide
- 33:22Unit at eight one seven four five nine five seven seven to two. We'd
- 33:28like to thank Steve Harris, Mike Lehman, and Mike Adair for their contributions
- 33:34to this episode. If you like Gone Cold's mission to raise awareness for unsolved
- 33:40homicides, missing persons cases, and other mysteries across Texas. We'd greatly appreciate
- 33:47your five star rating and written review on Apple Podcasts, particularly, or if
- 33:53you can't do that, wherever else you listen. It bumps the algorithm and
- 33:59helps the show visibility, gets the podcast in the ears of more folks,
- 34:04and gives us a better chance at reaching someone who might be able to provide
- 34:08law enforcement with information about the cases we cover. You can also support Gone
- 34:15Cold at patreon dot com forward slash Gone Cold podcast. There for two and
- 34:22a half bucks a month, you'll have access to add free listening and exclusive
- 34:27episodes available only on our Patreon feed. We appreciate any type of support you
- 34:34can give beyond words. Follow Gone Cold on Facebook, Instagram, threads,
- 34:39TikTok, YouTube, and x search at Gone Cold Podcast at all of them,
- 34:45or just click on the link in bio in our show notes. Thanks
- 34:51for listening, y'all.