“All four of these girls [were] at the wrong place at the wrong time,” Doug Bacon, a retired detective with the Friendswood Police Department in Texas, said in a new “20/20” interview with ABC News Correspondent John Quiñones. “They were doing ordinary things…and they just happened to cross the path of a serial killer.”
“Everybody loved Laura,” Gay Smither, Laura’s mother, told Quiñones. “She was just one of those people. I always say she was touched by light.”
Kelli Cox was a bright 20-year-old student at the University of North Texas and a new mother to her baby girl, Alexis. An aspiring therapist, Cox toured the City of Denton Jail with her criminal justice class on July 15, 1997.
When the class trip was over, Cox returned to her car but the key would not work. She proceeded to call her boyfriend from a pay phone at a nearby gas station.
On the evening of July 26, 1997, an officer spotted an abandoned white Dodge Neon sedan at the Sunshine Car Wash.
Tiffany Johnston taken at car wash
Lynn Williams, a former Division Director of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, said the conditions of the vehicle were suspicious.
“The car was unlocked. The keys were in the ignition. There was money in the console…so it didn’t appear to be a robbery,” Williams said.
The Cains’ 17-year-old daughter, Jessica, was a talented stage actor set to begin college.
“She was a parent’s dream. She was as good a child as you could ever want,” C.H. Cain said about their daughter.
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- When four young women disappeared in 1997, fear ravaged their tight-knit Texas and Oklahoma communities along the corridor of Interstate 45.Despite the proximity and similarity o
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