Mysterious Slaying of an Heiress: The Story Of Caroline Harte

Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

Vincent Strange

True Crime, Society & Culture, News

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🗓️ 11 March 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

In the summer of 1969, Caroline Louise Harte joined her friend May’s family at their summer home near the beaches of Port Aransas. Caroline and May enjoyed themselves the five days they spent together doing all the things that 14-year-olds do on a beach vacation. In the early morning hours of July 25th, however, the day Caroline was to return home to her family, an unthinkable and gruesome thing occurred: Caroline was murdered while she slept, just feet from where her friend, May, was sleeping.

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0:00.0	The Gone Cole Podcasts may contain violent or graphic subject matter.
0:04.0	Listener discretion is advised. Oh, Portarances
0:28.9	Ransis sits at the northernmost tip of Mustang Island, a long and narrow stretch of land that, along with a few
0:36.6	other islands, provides about a 250 mile outline of Texas from the tip of the state up in the Gulf of Mexico.
0:47.0	Mustang Island itself is around 18 miles long and the Barrier island housed an active fort during the Mexican War in the late
0:56.8	1840s to protect the entrance into Aransas Bay.
1:02.4	The fort also served the competency during the Civil War, and although
1:07.0	the southern troops maintained control of Mustang Island in 2, 1863, the Union would, of course,
1:15.0	push the Confederacy out and cease control.
1:18.0	A major blow to the South's ability to supply Confederate soldiers fighting in their northernmost states and
1:26.2	in Union territory with food and other necessary supplies.
1:31.8	The 20th century, though, would have the island in its inhabitants, see brighter times.
1:37.8	Azeranzas and Corpus Christi Bays became major ports of entry for importing and exporting.
1:44.0	Mustang Island became something of a tourist haven too.
1:48.0	The winters on Mustang Island were warm and deep sea fishermen, swimmers, and beachgoers began flocking to the island as quickly
1:57.6	as ferries that transported automobiles to and from could be built. It became a popular place for the summer homes of the middle and upper classes, whether owned or rented.
2:10.0	Though a large military presence re-emerged on the island during World War II, mostly precautionary,
2:18.0	the 500 or so individuals who resided on the island remained and Mustang Islands saw no incident of course in the war.
2:26.7	Tourism also continued but a Navy bombing range would stick around for another decade or so.
2:34.7	After the war, and presumably in direct relation to the island's booming tourism, the illegal
2:41.0	vice industry in Texas skyrocketed as it had in practically every corner of the United States at that time and
2:49.3	Portaranzas became a popular place to go for illicitness, gambling, strip joints, and prostitution.
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