Texas is well known for being tough on crime and those who committed, or at least the ones who get caught.

There are tens of thousands of unsolved in Texas in nearly as many open missing persons cases.

In 2017, gone cold Texas True Crime began with the story of Carla Walker

and a community came together and demanded justice.

Almost 47 years after her murder, Carla's case was solved.

Since then, Gone Cold has told the stories of hundreds of other cold cases.

Gone Cold's concentration is on the state's lesser known crimes.

The cases the media have long left behind like the assassination of Red River

County Commissioner Alton Peak in 1996 in the case of 12-year-old

Kimberly Norwood who disappeared from Halsville in 1989.

You also occasionally hear higher profile cases on Gone Cold, such as a comprehensive series on the

on gone cold, such as a comprehensive series on the 1996 abduction and murder of nine-year-old

Amber Hagerman, the little girl behind the alert,

and a detailed look at the 1974 disappearances of Rachel

Traleka, Renee Wilson, and Julie Mosley collectively known as the Fort Worth missing trio.

You're about to hear a clip from Gone Cold's episode about the 1980 murder of 26 year old Laura Pippendenka

in Corpus Christi.

While you listen, join Gondcold's mission

to bring forgotten cases back into the public's awareness

by subscribing to Gond Cold Texas True Crime, wherever you listen to podcasts.

Gone Cold isn't just a murder podcast, it's a pursuit for justice. is.

When Laura Pippendenka didn't show up at her ex-husband William Danka

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