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The Abduction & Murder of Patricia Kaye Humphreys · Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

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  Speaker 1: Gone Cold podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter.
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  Speaker 1: Listener discretion is advised. The nineteen seventies were a transformative
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  Speaker 1: time for Houston, Texas. Other cities and states were struggling
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  Speaker 1: with high inflation and high unemployment triggered by the Organization
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  Speaker 1: of Petroleum Exporting Countries or OPEK, orchestrating high oil prices
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  Speaker 1: in response to the Yam Kippur War, Houston's existing oil
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  Speaker 1: and petrochemical infrastructure became a primary focus of production, expansion
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  Speaker 1: and exploration. The Arab oil embargo of nineteen seventy three
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  Speaker 1: solidified the city's position in the energy sector, which kicked
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  Speaker 1: off a series of circumstances that would change it forever.
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  Speaker 1: Because of the creation of new jobs, folks flocked to
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  Speaker 1: the area and Greater Houston's population surged, the city gaining
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  Speaker 1: more than three quarters of a million residents in the decade.
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  Speaker 1: The oil boom and population growth led to a building boom.
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  Speaker 1: The success of the Contemporary Arts Museum, along with places
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  Speaker 1: like the Dean Gos Dinner Theater and the Alley Theater,
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  Speaker 1: illustrated Houston's arts culture boom, as well. A new age
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  Speaker 1: of increased political activism and cultural expression by the city's
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  Speaker 1: Hispanic population was ushered in. As the rest of the
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  Speaker 1: country fought to stay afloat. During the recessive uncertain times,
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  Speaker 1: Houston was thriving in both the best ways and the worst.
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  Speaker 1: In the early seventies, one of the most notorious cases
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  Speaker 1: that ever came out of Houston emerged as the bodies
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  Speaker 1: of twenty seventeenaged boys were dug up in the city's southwest.
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  Speaker 1: The murderous mastermind, the so called candy Man Pied Piper
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  Speaker 1: Dean Arnold Coral, was killed by one of his teenaged accomplices,
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  Speaker 1: Elmer Wayne Henley, who, along with David Owen Brooks, were
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  Speaker 1: later convicted for their roles in the rape and torture
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  Speaker 1: motivated crimes, which quickly became known as the Houston mass murders.
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  Speaker 1: Though most other homicide cases would pale in comparison to
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  Speaker 1: the sheer number of the dead in that case and
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  Speaker 1: the sensational press coverage, the deaths were hardly the first
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  Speaker 1: or last slangs in Houston that decade. In fact, when
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  Speaker 1: it was all said and done, there were about three thousand,
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  Speaker 1: six hundred and sixty homicides in the state's most populous city,
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  Speaker 1: in the nineteen seventies, rivaling many of the United States
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  Speaker 1: biggest cities. From the nineteen seventy one murder of Florence Parisette,
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  Speaker 1: a retired seventy two year old who was beaten to
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  Speaker 1: death and impaled by the throat on her bedpost to
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  Speaker 1: the nineteen six seventy nine Orchard Apartments killings, the decades,
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  Speaker 1: depravity didn't seem to discriminate, not even when it came
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  Speaker 1: to children. On Halloween nineteen seventy four, Ronald Clark O'Brien,
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  Speaker 1: the second Houston killer to be dubbed the candy Man
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  Speaker 1: in the nineteen seventies, poisoned his son Timothy by placing
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  Speaker 1: a fatal dose of potassium cyanide in his pixie sticks.
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  Speaker 1: Had it gone O'Brien's way, four more children would have
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  Speaker 1: died that night, but they hadn't yet gotten to their
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  Speaker 1: pixie sticks before police were able to confiscate the powdered candy.
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  Speaker 1: On August nineteenth, nineteen seventy nine, the bodies of twelve
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  Speaker 1: year old Andrea Yvette Jones, nine year old Amos Black,
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  Speaker 1: seven year old Tracy Jones, and three year old Timothy
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  Speaker 1: Beard were found after firefighters extinguished a blaze at a
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  Speaker 1: South Houston home. Andrea and Amos had been bound at
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  Speaker 1: their wrists and ankles and died of smoke and soot inhalation.
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  Speaker 1: She'd been raped and he strangled. Tracy was bound as
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  Speaker 1: well and also died of smoke inhalation. Little Tony, who
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  Speaker 1: wasn't bound, died the same way. The Houston police had
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  Speaker 1: insufficient evidence to arrest and charge the suspect in the case.
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  Speaker 1: There are many more homicide cases involving children, some solved
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  Speaker 1: and plenty unsolved, including the abduction and murder of fifteen
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  Speaker 1: year old Patricia Humphreys in the summer of nineteen seventy five.
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  Speaker 1: Patricia Humphreys, who was known by her middle name Kay
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  Speaker 1: to her family, but preferred the name Pat, was born
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  Speaker 1: on September twenty fifth, nineteen fifty nine, in Dallas, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: She was the second and last child born to Johnny
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  Speaker 1: and Patricia Humphreys. Her older sister's name is deb Pat's
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  Speaker 1: birth wasn't without complications. She was born with fluid around
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  Speaker 1: her brain, which required she be kept on an incubator
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  Speaker 1: until a procedure to drain it could be performed. According
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  Speaker 1: to her father. It put Pat a little behind her peers.
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  Speaker 1: When Pat and Deb were about five and six years old, respectively,
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  Speaker 1: Johnny and Patricia divorced a couple years later in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven. Johnny remarried a woman named Rosemary. Through all
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  Speaker 1: the ups and downs, Pat remained a good kid. She
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  Speaker 1: was described as a gentle, good hearted girl who was
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  Speaker 1: as sweet as could be. Pat was just very kind,
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  Speaker 1: her father said, and loved horses. Her mother, Patricia, described
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  Speaker 1: her in much the same way. If she were to
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  Speaker 1: dance and someone was sitting around looking like they weren't
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  Speaker 1: having a good time, Pat would approach them, introduce herself,
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  Speaker 1: and try to make sure they were having fun. After
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  Speaker 1: getting contact lenses as a young teenager, Pat lost them
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  Speaker 1: and was forced to go back to wearing glasses. Her
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  Speaker 1: big blue eyes unable to be hidden by the spectacles. Still,
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  Speaker 1: she hated wearing them. In the summer of nineteen seventy five,
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  Speaker 1: she had just completed her freshman year at Northbrook High
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  Speaker 1: Like every other typical teen, fifteen year old, Pat was
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  Speaker 1: doing everything she could to enjoy the summer break before
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  Speaker 1: going into her tenth grade year. Wednesday, June twenty fifth,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen seventy five was movie night. Pat and Deb wore
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  Speaker 1: down their mom until she finally allowed them to go
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  Speaker 1: to the Thunderbird Twin drive in theater, a popular place
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  Speaker 1: for teens to hang out, particularly during the summertime. Patricia
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  Speaker 1: was allowing her daughters to use her white Mercury Montego
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  Speaker 1: for the first time. The night was almost a test
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  Speaker 1: follow mom's rules by going straight to the drive in,
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  Speaker 1: which was two blocks from their Northwest Houston home, and
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  Speaker 1: come straight home after both of them and they'll get
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  Speaker 1: the chance to use the car again. Perhaps there was
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  Speaker 1: one more rule, do not stop and pick up any
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  Speaker 1: friends on the way to the theater. It was to
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  Speaker 1: be Deb and Pat in the car and Deb and
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  Speaker 1: Pat only. That rule was broken right off the bat.
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  Speaker 1: After leaving their duplex, they drove straight to Deb's boyfriend's
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  Speaker 1: house and picked him up. His name was Eddie Garcia. Next,
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  Speaker 1: they picked up a guy named Mike Hunter, a classmate Pat.
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  Speaker 1: Deb and the boys then bounced around the neighborhood to
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  Speaker 1: try and get other teenagers to come along. The group
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  Speaker 1: did managed to get a few other friends in the car,
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  Speaker 1: five or six kids total, and after that they were
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  Speaker 1: at the drive in In no time, the Thunderbird Twin
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  Speaker 1: Drive in theater was showing a double feature. First was
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  Speaker 1: the movie Lenny, in which actor Dustin Hoffman played Lenny Bruce,
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  Speaker 1: a stand up comedian, satirist, and social critic who significantly
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  Speaker 1: influenced counterculture movements and stand up comedy. The next was
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  Speaker 1: Midnight Cowboy. It also starred Dustin Hoffman, who plays an
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  Speaker 1: indigent con man who befriends a male sex worker and
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  Speaker 1: the two go into business together as hustlers. The teenagers
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  Speaker 1: arrived at the theater parked and got some snacks. They
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed the show over popcorn while talking and laughing. Everything
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  Speaker 1: was great until intermission. At the Thunderbird Twin Theater, Pat,
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  Speaker 1: her sister Deb and their friends were having a blast.
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  Speaker 1: When intermission came, A group of them headed to the
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  Speaker 1: concession stand while Pat went to the restroom. She left
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  Speaker 1: her purse and glasses behind in the car. It's unclear
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  Speaker 1: why she left the items. She needed her glasses badly,
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  Speaker 1: she could barely see without them. After using the restroom,
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  Speaker 1: Pat walked to the cigarette machine near the concession stand.
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  Speaker 1: The machine either didn't have the brand of cigarettes Pat
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  Speaker 1: preferred or was broken. A detail seemingly lost to time,
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  Speaker 1: but whichever is the case. She told everyone she was
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  Speaker 1: going to walk down the street to a nearby seven
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  Speaker 1: to eleven convenience store to get some there. Sometime around
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  Speaker 1: an hour later, Deb and the others noticed Pat hadn't returned.
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  Speaker 1: They searched the Thunderbird but couldn't find her, and no
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  Speaker 1: one they asked had seen her. Not at the concession stand,
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  Speaker 1: not anywhere. They raced to the seven eleven to see
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  Speaker 1: if anyone there saw Pat. No one had. As Deb
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  Speaker 1: drove home, her mind was racing. Most of all, she
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  Speaker 1: hoped Pat would be sitting on the front porch when
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  Speaker 1: she pulled up, or perhaps was sound asleep by then.
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  Speaker 1: Anxiety tingling in her belly and up her spine, Deb
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  Speaker 1: pulled up to the duplex. Pat was not waiting on
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  Speaker 1: the front porch. Now even more anxious, Deb walked into
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  Speaker 1: the house. She raced to the bedroom, no Pat. She
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  Speaker 1: looked around the rest of the duplex, still no Pat.
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  Speaker 1: Deb woke up her mother, Patricia, and told her Pat
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  Speaker 1: was missing. Patricia quickly made her way up to the
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  Speaker 1: drive in to look for her daughter, but Pat was
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  Speaker 1: nowhere to be found. She raced back home and called
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  Speaker 1: her ex husband and the girl's father, Johnny. Johnny and
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  Speaker 1: his wife had moved to California a few months before
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  Speaker 1: Patricia told him what was happening. Immediately, Johnny knew something
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  Speaker 1: was terribly wrong. Pat wasn't the type of kid to
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  Speaker 1: run away from home, he knew, and it was certainly
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  Speaker 1: not something she'd put her mother through. Patricia called the
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  Speaker 1: police to report her daughter missing. Johnny and his wife, Rosemary,
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  Speaker 1: booked the soonest flight they could and flew into Houston.
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  Speaker 1: Pat's family created missing persons posters fast friends of the
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  Speaker 1: missing girl and kids from her high school helped distribute them.
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  Speaker 1: On the flyers was a photograph of Pat. She wore
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  Speaker 1: her glasses in the picture, and it's noted above the
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  Speaker 1: photo that she wouldn't be wearing them. Below the photo,
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  Speaker 1: it's noted that her hair was now shorter. Pat stood
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  Speaker 1: about five feet three inches tall. She had blue eyes
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  Speaker 1: and medium length brown hair that fell just below her shoulders.
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  Speaker 1: When Johnny Humphries and his wife Rosemary got to Houston,
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  Speaker 1: they began conducting their own searches. They checked every abandoned
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  Speaker 1: warehouse or property they could find, and fields around the
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  Speaker 1: drive in theater. Patricia stayed at home just in case
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  Speaker 1: Pat showed up or a phone call came. Neither happened.
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  Speaker 1: Johnny feared the worst. He knew his daughter wouldn't have
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  Speaker 1: gone anywhere willingly with a stranger, and again he knew
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  Speaker 1: Pat wasn't the type to put her family through hell
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  Speaker 1: by taking off. A recent poem written by the missing
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  Speaker 1: girl provided further evidence that she was perfectly happy at home.
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  Speaker 1: She wrote, I live in a good home. I have
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  Speaker 1: a nice family. I have good friends who I like
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  Speaker 1: to see every day. Meanwhile, police interviewed everyone Pat knew.
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  Speaker 1: Intensive searches were organized and carried out. Officers utilized helicopters
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  Speaker 1: for a bird's eye view, while others searched through fields
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  Speaker 1: and woods on foot and horseback, looking for any sign
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  Speaker 1: of Pat Humphreys they could find. From the area around
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  Speaker 1: Pat's High School and up Gesner to the north and
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  Speaker 1: then west through parts of Bear Creek Park between Clay
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  Speaker 1: and Patterson Roads, they searched. The efforts were fruitless. Officers
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  Speaker 1: with Houston p D's Juvenile Division spoke with every resident
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  Speaker 1: within a large radius around the Thunderbird twin Drive in
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  Speaker 1: none of them had seen or heard anything. After days
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  Speaker 1: of searching without finding so much as a clue, the
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  Speaker 1: police stopped, insisting there would be no more searching until
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  Speaker 1: they got information that would lead them to search somewhere specific.
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  Speaker 1: Johnny Humphreys made a plea for his daughter's safer at
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  Speaker 1: time on local television. The plea went unanswered. After a week,
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  Speaker 1: Johnny came to realize the worst. I wasn't holding on
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  Speaker 1: too much hope, he later told a reporter. After the
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  Speaker 1: first week, I was just thinking, well, now we're looking
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  Speaker 1: for her body. He and Rosemary returned to California. The
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  Speaker 1: phone call he thought would eventually come the following months
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  Speaker 1: came and went, and if Houston police detectives worked any
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  Speaker 1: new leads on Pat Humphrey's case, they kept the information
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  Speaker 1: close to the chest. Then, late in the evening on
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  Speaker 1: October twenty second, nineteen seventy five, sixteen year old Nina
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  Speaker 1: len Kluge disappeared. Nina was from the unincorporated community of Cyprus,
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  Speaker 1: located in northwest Houston, not far from where Pat vanished.
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  Speaker 1: That night, she was on her way to visit friends
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  Speaker 1: down in Roe Sharon, a small town south of the
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  Speaker 1: big city, to watch a World Series game. The next day,
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  Speaker 1: Nina's car was found along Highway six by Fort Bend
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  Speaker 1: Sheriff's deputies, abandoned with a dead battery, but there was
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  Speaker 1: no sign of her. Then. On Thanksgiving Day nineteen seventy five,
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  Speaker 1: two men hunting rabbits along County Road three eighty two
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  Speaker 1: near Darrington Prison Farm found Nina's unclothed body atop a
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  Speaker 1: pile of clothes lying in a canal next to a
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  Speaker 1: rice field. She'd been shot in the head. Evidence found
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  Speaker 1: near Nina's body suggested she was killed elsewhere and then
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  Speaker 1: dumped in the weed ridden drainage ditch. Detectives working the
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  Speaker 1: Patricia Humphrey case had gotten word of Nina's case when
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  Speaker 1: she was still a missing person, and because she was
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  Speaker 1: from the city's northwest like pat they began comparing the
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  Speaker 1: two cases. There were loose similarities the girls ages, the
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  Speaker 1: fact that they both disappeared without so much as a trace,
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  Speaker 1: but at the end of the day, relying on what
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  Speaker 1: is known publicly, it appears detectives couldn't connect the cases
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  Speaker 1: any further than that. Decades later, in letters to the
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  Speaker 1: Houston Chronicle, convicted murderer, confessed sex offender and self professed
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  Speaker 1: serial killer Edward Harold Bell described an unnamed girl he
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  Speaker 1: said he picked up off Highway two thousand and four
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  Speaker 1: near Santa Fe, Texas. Bell claimed to be responsible for
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  Speaker 1: several unsolved murders of girls, many of which were found
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  Speaker 1: in what became known as the Texas Killing Fields. According
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  Speaker 1: to the newspaper, Nina's carr was found four miles west
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  Speaker 1: of Santa Fe. However, the vehicle was found by Fort
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  Speaker 1: Bend County authorities, which is separated from the city of
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  Speaker 1: Santa Fe and Galveston County by Brazori County. Nina's car
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  Speaker 1: was found much farther away from Santa Fe, it appears
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  Speaker 1: than the Houston Chronicle reported in twenty seventeen, but much
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  Speaker 1: closer to where her body was found in Brazoria County.
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  Speaker 1: Regardless of the mistake, Nina Kluge fits the general description
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  Speaker 1: of much of Edward Harold Bell's confessed killings, which he
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  Speaker 1: himself called the eleven that went to Heaven. The day
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  Speaker 1: after Nina's body was found in Brazoria County, anyway, another
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  Speaker 1: discovery was made sixty miles away in North Houston, five
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  Speaker 1: months after the disappearance of fifteen year old Pat Humphreys
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  Speaker 1: On Friday, November twenty eighth, nineteen seventy five, the day
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  Speaker 1: after Thanksgiving, two teenaged boys shooting BB gunsud bones in
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  Speaker 1: a wooded area one hundred feet behind Hillcrest Baptist Church
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  Speaker 1: at fifty six oh six Hopper Road. Among the bones
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  Speaker 1: was a pair of tan pants, a red and white blouse,
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  Speaker 1: and a small brass ring that bore the initial pea,
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  Speaker 1: all clothing that matched that which Pat was last seen wearing.
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  Speaker 1: The discovery of the remains was not reported to the
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  Speaker 1: Harris County Sheriff's office until the following day, Saturday, the
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  Speaker 1: twenty ninth. The location where the bones were found is
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  Speaker 1: about nineteen miles from the Thunderbird Twin Drive in where
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  Speaker 1: Pat was last seen. The body was sent to the
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  Speaker 1: Harris County Medical Examiner's Office. The emmy couldn't determine the
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  Speaker 1: cause of death, as the bones showed no breaks, fractures,
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  Speaker 1: or evidence of a stabbing or shooting, though medical investigator
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  Speaker 1: Cecil Kirkandall believed the victim had been strangled to death.
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  Speaker 1: A key bone needed to make such a determination was
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  Speaker 1: missing from the body, presumably meaning the hyoid bone. The
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  Speaker 1: estimated time of death, however, matched one case on Houston
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  Speaker 1: p D's plate, missing teenager Pat Humphreys. An identification was
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  Speaker 1: made by a scar on the skull, which matched a
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  Speaker 1: surgery to remove fluid from the brain Pat had when
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  Speaker 1: she was a baby. Dental records also confirmed that the
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  Speaker 1: body belonged to her, because they believed Pat was killed
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  Speaker 1: soon after she was last seen. Her death date was
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  Speaker 1: listed as June twenty sixth, nineteen seventy five. On Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: November thirtieth, nineteen seventy five, detectives informed Johnny and Patricia
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  Speaker 1: Humphries that the remains found belonged to their daughter. Johnny
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  Speaker 1: thought he'd long lost hope that Pat was still alive,
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  Speaker 1: he later told reporters, but the way the news devastated
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  Speaker 1: him suggested he still held on to a sliver, according
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  Speaker 1: to her father. Detectives also said that Pat had likely
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  Speaker 1: been raped, presumably meaning evidence found at the scene pointed
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  Speaker 1: in that direction. Though northwest Houston is a far jaunt
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  Speaker 1: from the Texas killing fields Pat's murder, the details of
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  Speaker 1: Pat's murder aren't that dissimilar from the victimology and general
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  Speaker 1: details in those cases. The confessions of self proclaimed serial
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  Speaker 1: killer Edward Harold Bell. His methods of operation loosely match
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  Speaker 1: what little is known about Pat's case, as do the
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  Speaker 1: mos of several other suspects in the killing Field's murders.
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  Speaker 1: If there were ever any suspects in the murder of
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  Speaker 1: Pat Humphreys, however, the Houston Police have kept the information
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  Speaker 1: to themselves because she was found nineteen miles from where
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  Speaker 1: she was last seen. Detectives believe Pat either accepted a
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  Speaker 1: ride voluntarily or was kidnapped, most likely the latter. Whatever
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  Speaker 1: the case, it was obvious foul play was involved, but
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  Speaker 1: the case only heated back up momentarily. Like when she vanished,
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  Speaker 1: The lack of evidence rendered the case culled again all
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  Speaker 1: but immediately. Pat Humphreys was laid to rest at Hope
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  Speaker 1: Cemetery in Henrietta, Texas, and for decades her case saw
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  Speaker 1: little to no activity. But in twenty fourteen, a woman
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  Speaker 1: came forward claiming to have had a suppressed memory about
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  Speaker 1: the night of June twenty fifth, nineteen seventy five. She
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  Speaker 1: knew who took Pat. She told police, other than a
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  Speaker 1: detective telling the media that they had an extensive forensic
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  Speaker 1: interview with the woman. Little is known about this supposed witness.
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  Speaker 1: Decades after pat was killed, the Houston Police Department tried
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  Speaker 1: pulling DNA off her remains and clothing, but the results
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  Speaker 1: were insufficient. They told the Houston Chronicle that their only
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  Speaker 1: hope is new information or new technology. It's unclear if
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  Speaker 1: they've tried lifting DNA from the remains of evidence in
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  Speaker 1: recent years. In twenty thirteen, Pat's sister, Deb died of cancer.
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  Speaker 1: The year prior, she told a reporter of the lessons
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  Speaker 1: learned in the hardest way imaginable. Always travel in pairs,
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  Speaker 1: Deb said. According to her and Pat's father, Johnny Humphries,
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  Speaker 1: Deb was upset and guilt ridden for much of her life.
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  Speaker 1: She tried to move forward the older she got and
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  Speaker 1: stopped talking about it so much, but she'd slip up
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  Speaker 1: every once in a while. It was impossible to forget.
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  Speaker 1: Johnny also recalled the endless grief Pat's mother, Patricia felt
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  Speaker 1: after her murder. He said, she was never the same.
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  Speaker 1: It destroyed her. She passed away in twenty twenty, having
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  Speaker 1: been given no answers. Johnny never tried to put his
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  Speaker 1: daughter's murder behind him, and is instead haunted by it
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  Speaker 1: to this day. While he knows he's the only remaining
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  Speaker 1: family member to push for justice, continually asking himself what
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  Speaker 1: new angle he'll pursue to find whoever is responsible. Guilt
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  Speaker 1: and uncertainty inevitably sneak in. Not knowing how or why
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  Speaker 1: pat was killed, Johnny obsesses about how she must have
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