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- 1:30just hit me like a ton of bricks right then, that if something was
- 1:34wrong, she would normally be home by that time. Deep in my gut,
- 1:38I just felt something was wrong with her. And he put his hand
- 1:42down in the front seat, and when he raised his hand up, he
- 1:45had blood on his hand. As soon as he saw the blood, he
- 1:48turned around and said, hey, I think this is plenty of evidence of
- 1:51power play. Born on November nineteenth, nineteen fifty three, Paula Jean Pucket
- 2:13was adopted when she was eleven months old by Air Force veteran and crew chief
- 2:17mechanic for American Airlines, Everett Junior Pucket and his wife, Ethel May.
- 2:23Paula's adoptive parents absolutely adored her. In fact, she was downright doated on
- 2:30from day one. Ethel loved dressing Paula up to the nines, whether it
- 2:36was for a portrait where she wore a fancy dress and bow, or for
- 2:39a photo op on a horse clad in a leather vest, chaps and straw
- 2:45cowboy hat. Whichever was the case, Paula's smile was undoubtedly the main attraction.
- 2:53When talking about her daughter, Ethel was known to make remarks about what
- 2:57a happy child she was, and old photograph of Paula certainly attest to that.
- 3:02Growing up in southeast Fort Worth, Everett and Ethel gave Paula a stable,
- 3:07happy and normal childhood. Her brother Eddie told us Paula loved her little
- 3:14brother Eddie. He was born a little more than a month before Paula's ninth
- 3:19birthday, and the two were close. Well, she was older than I
- 3:23was, you know, a boy nine years so I kind of looked up
- 3:28to her as more of a role model typ but you know, we played
- 3:31games and we were silly with each other, you know, normal brothers,
- 3:36sister top stuff. Paula also immediately delved into the role of protective big sister,
- 3:43something Eddie very fondly recalls. She was like very protective of me.
- 3:49You know, anybody was bullying me or said anything about me, she was
- 3:53ready to go, you know, open up knd of bloop aass on them.
- 3:54So when it came to Eddie, in fact, nothing could stop Paula
- 4:01from making sure he was well taken care of, even after she'd moved on
- 4:06to adulthood. Her mother, Ethel said that she and Everett once gave Paula
- 4:12and Eddie fifty bucks to go buy a suit for the teenager's first date,
- 4:16but Paula had her eye on a more expensive, more fashionable suit. She
- 4:21used thirty dollars of her own money to make up the difference, opting for
- 4:27the eighty dollars suit so Eddie could impress his date in style. The night.
- 4:31By all indications went well, though Eddie doesn't remember if the girl paid
- 4:36any attention to his stylish duds. Paula was extremely sociable and friendly. Yeah,
- 4:46she was just very friendly, outgoing. She pretty much loved everybody,
- 4:49you know, unless you gave her excuse not to. And even then,
- 4:54you know, it had be something pretty drastic before she didn't like you whatever.
- 5:00But yeah, she was just very friendly, outgoing, kind of a
- 5:02bubbly personality. Just every time I saw her, she was in a good
- 5:05mood pretty much. Yeah. In a letter she wrote to the Dallas Cowboys
- 5:11in hopes of becoming one of their famous cheerleaders or their beautiful girls, as
- 5:15she refers to them, Paula describes herself in similar terms as others do.
- 5:21An extrovert, she wrote that never stops loving people. By the time she
- 5:27graduated from Polytechnic High just southeast of downtown Fort Worth, the popular student had
- 5:33amassed a large social circle of friends. Paula had married her high school sweetheart,
- 5:41Joey Fahee in February of nineteen seventy one, and the two moved in
- 5:45together, but the puppy love didn't last long. The two divorced after a
- 5:50short go of it, in April of nineteen seventy one, Paula moved back
- 5:57in with her parents. By then, the Pucket family had moved to Hurst,
- 6:01a small community northeast of Fort Worth that serves more or less as a
- 6:06suburban outlier of the city. There, Paula Jean Pucket worked some retail jobs
- 6:12at Northeast Mall, which the Puckets lived right across the street from. Both.
- 6:17Paul and I worked at different times as kids and stuff for at the
- 6:21mall, and I spent a lot of time at the mall, at the
- 6:25Northeast Molls, you know, when she was a teenager, I think she
- 6:28worked like at Dillard's and clothe shops stuff like that, just retail kind of
- 6:32stuff. She was a hard worker. She took her job seriously whenever she
- 6:39was working somewhere. And she wasn't one of collinsick or not show up for
- 6:43work and stuff like that. So yeah, she was very responsible. According
- 6:48to some who knew her, Paula was attracted to quote bad boys, which
- 6:54might have explained why a couple relationships after her first marriage didn't last long.
- 7:00One unfortunately stuck at least for a while in the years following her divorce,
- 7:06Paula began dating another young man, Ronald Russell Davenport, who went by Ronnie.
- 7:15The two married in June nineteen seventy four, and Paula became Paula Davenport.
- 7:20Her and Ronald's romance struck fast and hard at first, but at its
- 7:27best the relationship was rocky, and at its worst it was dangerously abusive.
- 7:34After they parted ways for good in May of nineteen seventy seven, a man
- 7:39who dated Paula later claimed she remained terrified of Ronald. Paula began dating this
- 7:46man shortly after she and Ronald split up, and he says that because she
- 7:50feared for his safety, that she feared Ronald might try and harm him.
- 7:57Paula insisted they could no longer date. Once, this man says, Ronald
- 8:01broke Paula's finger in a fit of rage during an argument. At some point,
- 8:07too, Ronald took a baseball bat to Paula's car, denting the vehicle
- 8:13all over. Paula's brother, Eddie told us about another unfathomable act of violence
- 8:20Ronald perpetrated against his sister. She was sick and she came home from work,
- 8:26and he didn't work hardly any like. He would stay at home and
- 8:30he'd get a job and then he would lose it, and you know,
- 8:31he was pretty much a bomb. But he was at home, had all
- 8:35his buddies over drinking. And she came home from work one day and she
- 8:39had the flu and wasn't feeling good. So she came in and he said,
- 8:43what happened for dinner? He said, She said, well, I
- 8:46don't feel good, so I'm going to go to bed. But she said,
- 8:48I'll put the water on the stove, the bowl and all you have
- 8:52to do is put the pasta in and here's I'll heat up the meat sauce,
- 8:54and you know y'all can eat that. So he said, oh,
- 8:58hell no, you're you're my wife. You're going to cook costs all dinner
- 9:01before you go to bed. And so she said, now, this is
- 9:05what I'm doing, and you can either eat it or you can go get
- 9:07something or whatever. And she put it all on the stove and went to
- 9:11bed, and he came in there and drat her out of the bedroom by
- 9:13her hair and back into the living room, and she she'd already gotten undressed
- 9:18and in front of all of his friends and everything. He drags her in
- 9:22their naked and then pours the hot water over her head from the pot that
- 9:26she had started on the stove to heat the water for him for the pasta
- 9:30pours it overhead and it's winter, so it's really cold outside. And then
- 9:33he threw outside locker her out of the apartment, and so she had to
- 9:37go and find a phone somewhere, get someone to let her in, to
- 9:41use a phone to call my parents come pick her up. So that's that's
- 9:43the kind of guy he is. Although they knew of many acts of extreme
- 9:48violence carried out against their daughter, since it was Ethel and Everett whom Paula
- 9:54called when Ronald perpetrated them, there were certainly many of which the family were
- 9:58not aware. For ever one we knew about, there probably least a dozen
- 10:03others that we didn't. Going into nineteen seventy eight, things were looking up
- 10:09for Paula Jean Pucket Davenport. After her marriage to Ronald ended, Paula had
- 10:15again moved back in with her parents. With Paula, this time came a
- 10:20baby boy, Shane. Ronald was the father. Once again. The Pucket
- 10:26home provided Paula a stable and loving environment, a respite from the unforgivable violence
- 10:33she suffered at the hands of Ronald Russell Davenport. It was inarguably a better
- 10:39place for her and Shane, somewhere she could begin to build her future.
- 10:46Paula wanted to be a good mother like her own, and that meant giving
- 10:50little Shane a home free of violence. She was doing more than moving forward
- 10:56after her divorce. She was moving on, even if she continually had to
- 11:01look over her shoulders and fear Ronald could harm her at any time. It
- 11:07was that February of nineteen seventy eight that she sent a letter to the Dallas
- 11:11Cowboys in an attempt to land a spot as a cheerleader. Paula continued attending
- 11:16church at Fort Worth's Rolling Hills Baptist and was moving her way up as far
- 11:22as employment goes. She'd long since left her job at Cook Industries, a
- 11:28grain company in Saginaw just north of Fort Worth, where she worked as a
- 11:31clerk. At Cook Industries, Paula joined and played on the company's softball team,
- 11:37and when she moved on to other employment, she remained active in company
- 11:41spirit activities. Paula had since taken a position at the oil field equipment sales
- 11:48business Hydra Rig Company as the production control manager's assistant. Once there, she
- 11:54quickly became involved in that business's bowling league, which she particularly loved. By
- 12:01all accounts, Paula had also taken up embroidery and still maintained an active social
- 12:07life with her many friends, often meeting up with them and to coworkers at
- 12:11the Corporate Image Bar in East fort Worth once a week at the very least.
- 12:18Things were looking good for the exceptionally bright and well loved mother. In
- 12:22April of nineteen seventy eight, however, Paula's life was cut short by an
- 12:28unimaginable act. The nineteen seventy seven nineteen seventy eight winter had been unusually cold
- 12:46and precipitous in North Texas. A day of snowfall that season, on February
- 12:52seventeenth, in fact, still holds its place in the record books as the
- 12:56third largest snowfall in the Dallas sport Worth area to this day. By mid
- 13:03spring, however, things were getting back to normal and the temperature on any
- 13:07given day had leveled out to its seasonal norm. For serious leagues anyway,
- 13:15the bitterly cold and icy winter had done little to deter bowlers from competing at
- 13:20area lanes. Once out of the cold and into the bowling alley, there
- 13:26was a kind of impenetrable wall separating what was going on inside and out.
- 13:31Twenty four year old Paula Jean Davenport loved being behind that wall throwing strikes,
- 13:37but on the evening of Tuesday, April twenty fifth, nineteen seventy eight,
- 13:41she wasn't feeling quite up to it. Tired after a long, hard day's
- 13:46work and feeling far from one hundred percent, Paula was contemplating skipping out on
- 13:52the league, but shortly after arriving home from work, a mutual friend of
- 13:56hers and her ex husband, Ronald's, called, I think he was on
- 14:01the bowling league as well. Thank you bowled with him and he called her
- 14:05and said, yeah, we really need you. Come on, you know,
- 14:09come and She's like, no, I just don't feel good. I'm
- 14:11not going to make it to night. He said, come on, we
- 14:13really need you, and so she did end up saying Okay, I'll just
- 14:16come, but I'm coming right back home afterwards, because a lot of times
- 14:20I think they went out afterwards go to a bar or something, you know.
- 14:22But she said, but I'm coming home immediately after because I don't feel
- 14:26good, and he said, yeah, it's fine. So she ended up
- 14:28going because he was pretty persistent that she show up. Paula told her parents
- 14:33she was going to go ahead and go bowling. She planned on coming home
- 14:37immediately after, Paula added at about seven thirty pm, Paula headed to the
- 14:43Brunswick Bowler Land on Fort Worth's East Lancaster Avenue, about seven and a half
- 14:50miles from where she lived with her parents in Hurst, or about a twelve
- 14:54minute drive. She should have only been gone a couple hours at the most.
- 15:01Later that night, Paula Davenport's parents, Ethel and Everett became increasingly worried
- 15:05as each minute passed with no word from their daughter. They felt something wasn't
- 15:11right. If Paula had car trouble, she'd have called. She always did,
- 15:16and her father always took care of it. If she had gotten to
- 15:20feel better and decided to stay out longer with friends, Ethel later said she
- 15:26also would have called to let them know. It wasn't like her at all
- 15:30to not make contact if plans had changed, especially considering she had a one
- 15:35and a half year old baby boy at home. Still knowing that young adults
- 15:41and their habits aren't always consistent or predictable, and perhaps refusing to fear the
- 15:48worst, Ethel and Everett went to bed. Eddie, who'd gone to bed
- 15:52before his parents, remembers waking up in the middle of the night. I
- 15:58woke up that night and my room was across from hers, so I could
- 16:00always tell. She always left like a light on in her room until she
- 16:06came home, and then when she would get ready for bed that way which
- 16:08came in, there'd be a little light in her room. And I always
- 16:11tell when she was if she was home or not, just by looking.
- 16:15She came home during the night and went to bed, she would turn the
- 16:18light off. But I woke up around I don't know, three o'clock and
- 16:22I could see that her light was still on, and it just hit me
- 16:25like a ton of bricks right then that was something was wrong. She would
- 16:29normally be home by that time. I just, deep in my gut,
- 16:33I just felt something was wrong. Ethel woke up at five am the next
- 16:37morning, Wednesday, April twenty sixth. The first thing she did was check
- 16:41Paula's room and her daughter still wasn't there. That was it. Ethel knew
- 16:48something was terribly wrong. She woke up Everett when I got up the next
- 16:53morning. You know, my mom her both already up and worried and wanted
- 16:57to go to the police station or call the police and follow missing persons report
- 17:02or something, because they knew something was wrong. I knew something was wrong.
- 17:04It was just it wasn't something that she would do because you know,
- 17:07Shane was still there. She was way more responsible than just to stay out
- 17:11all night and I'll come home take care of a kid. The family headed
- 17:15to the Hurst Police department to file a missing person's report. Hurst police weren't
- 17:22less than convinced twenty four year old Paula hadn't simply stayed the night out partying
- 17:29or with a friend. They weren't listening to the people who knew Paula best,
- 17:33her parents, when they told police that if her daughter had decided to
- 17:37stay out, she'd have called. There was no doubt. Police took the
- 17:42report and noted Paula's description. By nine am that morning, Paula Davenport's coworkers
- 17:51began worrying when she hadn't shown up for work. Those in the league with
- 17:55her reported that she missed bowling the night before. After discovering she'd not made
- 18:00at home, a few of them headed up to Brunswick bowler Land, where
- 18:04they found Paula's silver Honda Civic in the parking lot. They called the Fort
- 18:11Worth Police Everett and ethel Pucket. Paula's parents had also been informed her Honda
- 18:18Civic was still parked outside the bowling alley. Everett and Paula's fifteen year old
- 18:23brother Eddie got to the bowler Land shortly after police arrived. Somehow we figure
- 18:30up that her car was at the bowling alley and I went with my dad
- 18:33out there and the police. I only got there the fourth police were there
- 18:40and they were talking to him, and my dad at that point hadn't even
- 18:44unlocked the car or anything because he had a set of keys to it and
- 18:48the cause. At that point we're still saying, yeah, there's no evidence
- 18:52of foul play or eating like that, so we got to wait and just
- 18:55see because the issue turns up. Though they knew something was terrible wrong,
- 19:00Paula's family desperately held out hope that she was still alive. After talking to
- 19:07police, Everett unlocked and leaned into his daughter's car. He steadied himself by
- 19:11placing his hand on the black fabric seat. The cops were actually pulling away
- 19:18and leaving, and my dad opened the car door up, and he was
- 19:22looking for something in the car. When he put his hand down in the
- 19:26front seat, there was a lot of blood in the seat, and when
- 19:29he raised his hand up, he had blood on his hand. And so
- 19:33as soon as he saw the blood, he turned around and called the cops
- 19:36back and said, hey, I think this is plenty of evidence of powerplay.
- 19:38And so at that point it turned into an investigation. They took it
- 19:44way more seriously at that point. Everett later told a reporter it was at
- 19:48the moment he saw the blood on his hand that he knew Paula was dead.
- 19:53His heart, he said burst. It was reported that police later found
- 20:00a small amount of blood on the concrete parking lot as well. Still,
- 20:06there were no clues as to Paula's whereabouts. Detectives Dan Smith and Cliff Newcomer
- 20:11of the Hurst Police immediately led the search efforts and their jurisdiction using the description
- 20:18of the twenty four year old mother. Taken from the initial missing persons report,
- 20:23Paula was five feet six inches tall, with long, dark brown hair
- 20:27and green eyes. The description red. Paula left her home headed for the
- 20:33Brunswick Bowler Land, wearing a long sleeved white blouse with blue jeans that had
- 20:38red, white and blue stripes on the back pockets. It was hard to
- 20:42know where to look in Hurst in nineteen seventy eight. The suburban neighborhoods were
- 20:48spread out, separated not only by a few shopping centers and the area's largest
- 20:53employer, Bell helicopter, but also by large grassy fields and dents. Would
- 21:00as police in fort Worth, meanwhile, could fan out from the Bowling Alley
- 21:06and search the woods and fields in the vicinity, the task was daunting.
- 21:11Search efforts likely consisted of little more than keeping an eye out for Paula.
- 21:17Of course, any overwhelming uncertainty law enforcement might have faced paled in comparison to
- 21:22the torture the Pucket family was experiencing almost exactly three days after Paula Pucket Davenport
- 21:42was last seen at about six forty pm on Friday, April twenty eighth,
- 21:48nineteen seventy eight. Forty eight year old James Betcher pulled into a heavily wooded
- 21:52area near Interstate Loop eight twenty and John T. White Road. The man
- 21:57had cut down a cedar tree in his yard and had come to dispose of
- 22:02it in the hidden, though not especially secluded woods. Since he ended up
- 22:07only around two hundred feet north of Interstate thirty, the area was often used
- 22:12as a place for folks without city trash service to dump things like trees and
- 22:18garbage used for that purpose enough at least for vehicles to have worn tire tracks
- 22:25through the tall grass in the open areas. After getting out of his truck,
- 22:30mister Betcher gasped and froze in shock. Not far from where his truck
- 22:36sat, in thick brush laid the body of a woman. He raced to
- 22:41a phone to call police. When Fort Worth homicide detectives arrived at the scene,
- 22:47they immediately took note of the conditions surrounding the woman's body. The body
- 22:52itself was partially decomposed, laying on its side, the woman's head facing down.
- 23:00Her arms were extended out and crossed, and one of her legs lay
- 23:03across the other. The woman's braw underwear and jeans had been removed, the
- 23:11bottoms draped across her legs near her feet. Her blouse was still on her
- 23:15body, but it had been torn and pulled over her head. On the
- 23:21woman's finger remained a ring and around her neck a necklace. Her underwear were
- 23:26nowhere to be found. Later, the woman was positively identified as Paula Pucket
- 23:33Davenport. Where her body was discovered was approximately four and a half miles from
- 23:41Brunswick Bowler Land, where Paula's vehicle was found the morning after she went missing.
- 23:47It was en route to and from her home and the Brunswick Bowler Land,
- 23:52for she was supposed to have met her league for a game. Terrant
- 23:56County medical examiner Felix Quotes performed the autopsy on Paula Davenport's body the night she
- 24:03was discovered. The decomposition was consistent with someone who had been deceased for at
- 24:08least two and a half days. Given the conditions in which the body was
- 24:12found, Quotes concluded that put the time of death somewhere around the night of
- 24:18Tuesday, April twenty fifth, nineteen seventy eight, or very early Wednesday,
- 24:23the twenty sixth. Those days saw moderate highs in the low to mid seventies.
- 24:30Both April twenty seventh and twenty eighth had seen temperatures climb into the low
- 24:33eighties, but the air was comfortably dry for the most part. All of
- 24:38these factors rendered a time of death estimation relatively sound, though of course far
- 24:45from an exact science even today. When he completed the examination, doctor Quotes
- 24:52determined that Paula's death was a homicide, the cause to gunshot wounds. The
- 24:57gunshot wound to paula abdomen on the left side was perhaps an injury which she
- 25:03could have recovered from the other. However, sustained on the left side of
- 25:10her chest, Quotes said killed her within seconds. The bullet recovered from her
- 25:15body was twenty two caliber. Quotes was unable to determine definitively if Paula Davenport
- 25:22had been raped, but remarked that by all indications, her killer either did
- 25:29sexually assault her or attempted to. In contrast to this determination, Fort Worth
- 25:34police detectives told the Dallas Morning News that Paula's killer had not attempted to rape
- 25:41her at all. Rather, the removal of clothing was an attempt to make
- 25:45it look as though the motive was sexual assault. On the inside of the
- 25:51ring that remained on the deceased young woman's finger was an inscription the woman's name.
- 25:57The identification of the body as twenty four year old Paula Jean Pucket Davenport
- 26:03was made and reported to family just after midnight. The next morning, Saturday,
- 26:10April twenty ninth, nineteen seventy eight, fort Worth police cordoned off the
- 26:15area around where Paula's body was discovered. Crime scene investigators made plaster casts of
- 26:22tracks left by steel belted radial tires, suspecting they were left by whoever murdered
- 26:27the young woman. The cops, too, made a particularly intelligent decision by
- 26:33utilizing thirty Police Academy recruits in their search for evidence, allowing them to cover
- 26:40far more ground. Paula's purse had yet to be found, and because her
- 26:45underwear was also missing from her body, police desperately wanted to find these items,
- 26:52not to mention the murder weapon. The cadets were ordered to keep their
- 26:56eyes to the ground, but after foot searches and aerial searches by helicopter,
- 27:03nothing incredibly substantial was found, No sure thing evidence or clue. One officer
- 27:10remarked about where Paula's body was found. Somebody could have driven up in a
- 27:14car and thrown her out. That's just what Detectives theorized that Paula was killed
- 27:21elsewhere and dumped in the heavy brush, which would keep her concealed just long
- 27:26enough. Her killer likely thought, just for extra insurance, he tried to
- 27:30make it look like sexual assault was the motive. While the investigation continued moving
- 27:37slowly as far as evidence collection and coming up with a motive was concerned.
- 27:44The funeral of Paula Jean Pucket Davenport was held at Lucas's Funeral Chapel in Hurst.
- 27:51She was buried at Bluebonnet Hills Cemetery in Colleyville on Monday, May one,
- 27:56nineteen seventy eight. Meanwhile, Fort Worth police detectives poured over reports that
- 28:03had come in from individuals believing they saw Paula's silver Honda Civic just before and
- 28:10as she pulled in to the Brunswick Bowler Land. None of the reports,
- 28:15whether considered valid or not, led to anything substantial. By Tuesday, May
- 28:21second, Police Chief A. J. Brown gathered three homicide investigators and two
- 28:26administrative sergeants and set up a squad solely responsible for working Paula's case and a
- 28:33couple other unsolved Fort Worth slangs. From here on out and until otherwise informed,
- 28:41detectives Claude Davis, Emmett Cole, and George Hudson were to concentrate on
- 28:47these crimes alongside sergeants David DAEs and Randy Eli. These were five of the
- 28:53department's most seasoned lawman cops who got results much more often than non. Chief
- 29:00aj Brown wasn't a well liked leader by his subordinates because he often utilized this
- 29:07type of method. He was a progressive chief who valued the latest in forensics
- 29:12and was a member of the Police Executive Research Forum, a quote national organization
- 29:18designed to encourage debate and experimentation in methods of law enforcement. Fort Worth police
- 29:26officers and detectives resented the fact that Chief Brown was shaking up the department,
- 29:32which eventually led to his departure in mid nineteen seventy nine. That's neither here
- 29:37nor there, perhaps, but it seems clear that detectives were loath to follow
- 29:44Brown's lead. Regardless. The newly formed crime squad, comprised of these experienced
- 29:51detectives was not a bad thing by any stretch, particularly the inclusion of highly
- 29:56regarded homicide detectives Claude Davis and Joy George Hudson. The squad began scrutinizing Paula
- 30:03Davenport's life, her habits, and the people who knew her. They were
- 30:08working both possible angles and making no assumptions. Homicide Captain Roy Tait told the
- 30:15four Worth Star Telegram they were not making any premature assertions on whether Paula's killer
- 30:22was either someone she knew or an opportunistic stranger a predator, and it wasn't
- 30:29long until detectives were completely convinced they had their guy. So I was convinced
- 30:38after that time that he was at least involved in exactly where she'd be taken.
- 30:47On the next episode of Gone Cold, Texas True Crime, we'll hear
- 30:52more from Paula's brother Eddie, discussed to whom the investigation into Paula's murder led
- 30:57and why an arrest was never made. If you have any information about the
- 31:04murder of Paula Jean Pucket Davenport, please contact the Fort Worth Police Cold Case
- 31:11Unit at eight one seven three ninety two four three zero seven. We'd like
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