I-35 Mysteries - Victims And Similarities

[JeannieC]

Report number: 82119399
Victim: Thomas Orville Morison, 34 year-old white male
Location: 3434 East Lancaster Avenue Ft Worth, Tx


Synopsis:
On April 7, 1982, officers were dispatched to the Century Motel at 3434 E. Lancaster Avenue. A housekeeper had entered one of the rooms and found the body of Thomas Morison in the room. It appeared that he struggled with the suspect(s). It was later determined that he had been strangled.

http://www.fortworthpd.com/get-involved/1980-to-1989.aspx

 

[JeannieC]

Report number: 80192785
Victim: Sylvia Hynes 27 year-old black female
Location: 1700 E. Lancaster Avenue Ft Worth, Tx


Synopsis:
On June 12, 1980, officers were dispatched to 1800 E. Lancaster Avenue. They found Sylvia Hynes critically injured. An employee from a local company reported the following: an older model, blue-in-color van was traveling westbound at 1700 E. Lancaster Avenue. The front passenger door of the van opened and Sylvia Hynes was apparently pushed out of the vehicle, and fell on to the pavement. The van and its occupants fled the scene. Sylvia Hynes died at the hospital, due to trauma to the head.

http://www.fortworthpd.com/get-involved/1980-to-1989.aspx

 

[JeannieC]

Report number: 81410007
Victim: Michael Morgan 25 year-old white male
Location: 3513 STANLEY


Synopsis:
On November 29, 1981, officers were dispatched to the residence at 3513 Stanley Avenue. They found the body of Michael Morgan lying in the front yard of the residence. A witness reported that Michael Morgan had been talking to another male in the back yard. About ten minutes later, the witness heard some gunshots. Michael Morgan died as a result of gunshot wounds.

http://www.fortworthpd.com/get-involved/1980-to-1989.aspx

 

[JeannieC]

Report number: 83254209
Victim: Julie Fuller, 11 years old
Location: 200 Handley-Ederville Road Ft Worth, Tx

Synopsis:
On June 27, 1983, Julie Fuller was staying with her parents at a motel in the city of Arlington. Julie left the room to take some trash to a dumpster. She did not return to the room. The following day, the body of Julie Fuller was found in a ditch at 200 Handley-Ederville Road in Fort Worth. She had been strangled. Julie Fuller and her parents had recently arrived in the United States from England.

http://www.fortworthpd.com/get-involved/1980-to-1989.aspx

 

[KateB]

VICTIMS #2 AND #3

Frank Key age 19 and Rita Salazar age 18 November 5, 1978
On the night of November 5, 1978, 19-year-old Frank Key and 18-year-old Rita Salazar ran out of gas on a date in Austin. Next morning, Key was found north of Georgetown, shot nine times with a .22-caliber pistol, including four post-mortem shots in the back of the head. Salazar's body, shot six times with the same gun, was found on a frontage road near Waco.

http://www.crimezzz.net/serialkillers/I/I35.php

This one is solved after 30 years.
http://www.statesman.com/news/williamson/man-now-53-pleads-guilty-to-1978-williamson-2206083.html
Published: 9:23 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2012

GEORGETOWN — More than 30 years of waiting for resolution in the case of a 19-year-old who was kidnapped and killed along with his date in 1978 ended quickly Tuesday in a Williamson County courtroom. Benny Tijerina, 53, stood quietly in front of District Judge Burt Carnes and pleaded guilty in the shooting death of Frank Kevin Key. Carnes sentenced Tijerina to 40 years in prison for the murder conviction. Tijerina will serve that sentence concurrently with a 40-year sentence he received last week in McLennan County after he pleaded guilty to murder in the shooting death of Rita Salazar, who was Key's date.

 

[OkieGranny]

Report number: 78018772
Victim: Lecia McGee, 17 years old
Location: 2300 S.W. Loop Ft Worth, Tx

Synopsis:
On January 22, 1978, Lecia McGee went to visit some friends. She left a few hours later and did not return home. Her family reported her missing. The next day, Lecia’s body was found in her car, which was parked at 2300 S.W. Loop 820. She died as a result of being stabbed several times. She resided a few miles from where she was found.

http://www.fortworthpd.com/get-involved/1970-to-1979.aspx

http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/07/19/5981628/fort-worth-man-emerges-as-suspect.html

But a break would not come until 2009, after Fort Worth police Detective Jose Hernandez requested tests on several items from the 1978 cold case, hoping modern science might finally yield a suspect’s DNA profile...

The identity of the mystery man would be revealed three months later when police were notified that a database of convicted offenders’ DNA profiles had matched the DNA profile to that of an inmate.

Robin Carter, who lived two streets down from the McGees and had been briefly questioned by police two months after her slaying, was now the prime suspect in the case.

And yet... still no arrest.

 

[FWTrioDoc]

http://www.star-telegram.com/2014/07/19/5981628/fort-worth-man-emerges-as-suspect.html



And yet... still no arrest.

This is related but not related so I'm not sure where to post this. There has been some discussion on some past threads related to Robin Carter. There is an anecdotal story that Robin's older brother saw Robin come home with a (hunting?) knife covered in blood. Allegedly Pat brought this information to his father. Nothing actionable was ever done with the information. Pat Carter was involved in a hit and run and was completely physically and mentally incapacitated for the rest of his life. George worked in law enforcement for a long time and then was a reserve or volunteer officer with Fort Worth PD for another long stretch after his official career was over. There is no law enforcement report anywhere for any north texas LE related to that hit and run. It seems odd to me to have a parent involved in LE to the extent George Carter was involved and your son is horribly injured in a hit and run accident and you are not doing everything possible to bring the full force of LE in to investigate and close that case for someone that did something like that to his child. If I'm wrong, please let me know and please provide documentation if possible, but I'd like to know if anyone has any further information on that accident, when it occurred, where, any details, if there was any further follow up, etc. It had to have happened after Pat allegedly mentioned the knife to his father. So, how long after. BTW, keep in mind Robin later ran down a school teacher with his truck. It's a miracle she did not end up in the same state as Pat Carter.

 

[FWTrioDoc]

http://www.fortworthpd.com/get-involved/1970-to-1979.aspx

This is related but not related so I'm not sure where to post this. There has been some discussion on some past threads related to Robin Carter. There is an anecdotal story that Robin's older brother saw Robin come home with a (hunting?) knife covered in blood. Allegedly Pat brought this information to his father. Nothing actionable was ever done with the information. Pat Carter was involved in a hit and run and was completely physically and mentally incapacitated for the rest of his life. George worked in law enforcement for a long time and then was a reserve or volunteer officer with Fort Worth PD for another long stretch after his official career was over. There is no law enforcement report anywhere for any north texas LE related to that hit and run. It seems odd to me to have a parent involved in LE to the extent George Carter was involved and your son is horribly injured in a hit and run accident and you are not doing everything possible to bring the full force of LE in to investigate and close that case for someone that did something like that to his child. If I'm wrong, please let me know and please provide documentation if possible, but I'd like to know if anyone has any further information on that accident, when it occurred, where, any details, if there was any further follow up, etc. It had to have happened after Pat allegedly mentioned the knife to his father. So, how long after. BTW, keep in mind Robin later ran down a school teacher with his truck. It's a miracle she did not end up in the same state as Pat Carter.