TX TX - Catherine 'Catrina' Mowrey, 24, found dead, Dallas, June 1985

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I was a bit surprised that there was not a thread on Catrina already here on Websleuths, but here are the details:

In June,1985, 24 yr old Catherine Mowrey, who went by Catrina, was found dead in Dallas, TX. Her naked body had been wrapped in a sheet before being tossed into the trunk of her boyfriend's car. Police who first arrived at the scene dismissed her death as having to do with a drug overdose, and that perhaps her body was discarded to distance her death from the people she was with when she died. However, an autopsy found no evidence of drugs in her system. The police then shifted their stance saying that Catrina died by suicide. Catrina was supposed to have left on a road trip to visit family in Kansas, but she never arrived. Her case remains unsolved and the official cause of death is 'Undetermined'. Police questioned her boyfriend who claimed that Catrina had left for Kansas and borrowed his car, and as far as he knew, Catrina was in Kansas visiting her family.

We are investigating Catrina's case on the latest episode of my podcast, 'Citizen Detective' and will dive into Catrina's case live alongside our citizen sleuths tomorrow, Tuesday 7/26. We hope you will join us as we try to crowd-sleuth this case. We are hoping to have Catrina's sister on live as well, but due to a death in the family, we are not sure at this time if she will join us, but we hope YOU will either way

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Out now on EP4 of Citizen Detective Podcast; On June 25th, 1985 police in Dallas, Texas received a phone call from a concerned citizen who reported an abandoned car in an alley with a foul smell coming from it; a car that had been in the same spot for days. When police investigated and opened the trunk, they found a dead woman inside the trunk. She was nude and wrapped in a sheet. The victim was soon identified as 24 year-old Catherine Mowrey, who went by Catrina. Much of Catrina's life in Dallas was a msytery to her family back home in Kansas. When Catrina's body was found, she was supposed to be back in Kansas visiting her family. The car was traced to Catrina's boyfriend who claimed to have no knowledge or involvement in Catrina's death. According to him, Catrina had driven his car back to Kansas to see her family. Police theorized that Catrina had taken her own life. They then shifted to the theory that Catrina had died of a drug overdose, but when no drugs were found in Catrina's system, they one again changed direction dismissing the death as 'undetermined' and essentially that's where investigation into Catrina's death seemed to stall. Due to decomposition, the medical examiner left the official cause of death as 'undetermined'. For years, Catrina's family fought an uphill battle to find out the truth behind Catrina's death; a battle that they still are fighting today.
In this episode, we are joined by Catrina's niece, Catrina Marshall, as well as death investigator Landen Wilson, and Jared Bradley of MVAC DNA extraction services.
If you have information about the death of Catrina Mowrey, please report it to the Homicide Unit of the Dallas Police Department at 214-671-3661 or its General Investigations line at 214-671-3503. Tips can also be sent to Catrina Marshall on Twitter at @catrinamarsh91
To sign the petition urging Dallas Officials to look closer at Catrina's case, visit this link:
https://www.change.org/.../texas-state-house-why-has-this...
Listen to the episode here:
https://www.spreaker.com/.../116.../episode-4-catrina-mowrey