TX TX - DeDe Willingham Henson, 19, Dallas, 20 March 1972

[2sisters]

I came across this a few years back. does anyone know anything about it? I can't find much information on her.
http://www.murdervictims.com/Voices/Dede_Henson.htm

 

[docwho3]

I went to the website and tried the link from there to the case history but the link would not work so I emailed the lady to see if she would like to post the case history here at websleuths. I have no idea if they even monitor that email addy any more so we will have to wait and see.

 

[2sisters]

lets hope they come, maybe someone here can help them. It is such a strange case it seems.

 

[coco]

Bumping for this case. Any new info here? Cannot find anything on it, not even a brief case outline.

 

[WholeLottaRosie]

bumping again, wondering if anyone learned anything. Bumping for Dede!

 

[StarrChance]

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8075997&ref=acom

DeDe Catherine Willingham Henson
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Birth: May 17, 1952
Death: Mar. 20, 1972
Dallas
Dallas County
Texas, USA

Unsolved Murder Vicim.

DeDe was recently married to Arnold. She was a freelance artist and loved children. About four months after the wedding, mysterious phone calls began to disrupt their lives, even after changiing their unlisted phone number several times. She was last seen alive at a laundry mat after taking her husband to work.

Burial:
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Specifically: Unknown Location in Dallas County, Texas

 

[Spruce71]

Enough evidence was collected to have solved this case decades ago. Seems someone inside the police department was sabotaging the investigation. All physical evidence came up missing. A convicted serial rapist lived one block away at the time. He was friends with a Det. Sgt. Investigator who also lived nearby. Perhaps that is why a prime suspect has never been questioned? This guy is still alive, and still has not been questioned.

 

[Spruce71]

(dede-henson-cold-case-rewards.b12sites.com)

The police are now actively covering up their cover-up by freezing any remaining records and refusing to answer any inquiries.

 

[Spruce71]

Bumping for this case. Any new info here? Cannot find anything on it, not even a brief case outline.

(dede-henson-cold-case-rewards.b12sites.com)
I have investigated this case to the max. The original case report and all physical evidence has been missing since 1978. What remains has been sealed by the Dallas Police, claiming that releasing any information could jeopardize another unknown agency's investigation into an unnamed case for an undetermined amount of time.

 

[Spruce71]

Dede was a freelance artist who designed her high school's
Apache logo for the "I CARE" student campaign, encouraging students to be responsible. She was very active at Spruce H.S. enrolled in the Art Club, the Chapel Club, and a member of the school spirit program called "The Tribe". She had a smile for everybody, despite extreme physical and psychological pressure from her home life. Her father, in and out of several mental institutions, was totally obsessed with controlling every aspect of her life. He considered Dede his personal property starting at age seven and threatened her to keep quiet to protect her other sisters from the same abuse. He too should have been on the suspect list.

 

[Spruce71]

Dede (Willingham) Henson was abused and totally controlled as child. When she got older she could stand up to her mentally deranged father. While the father was in the Terrell St. Mental Hospital, Dede met the love of her life, Arnold Henson, who showed her love and affection like she had never had before. Meanwhile the father, released from the mental hospital to see Dede get married, made threats and tried to intimidate Dede, she was afraid to tell her new husband. Two months after their marriage on Nov. 1st, 1969, Dede came under constant terror threats, continuous unknown strange phone calls, and being followed by two young men, one looked younger than her, one a little older. They would follow her if she went somewhere, they would show up where she went shopping, and drive by her house slowly while honking the car horn. How did keep getting her number when she changed the phone number, and how did they always seem to know where she was going? Once they even tried to push her car with their car into a crowded intersection while she was stopped for a red-light. Constantly harassed for two years. Her last night alive, the phone never stopped ringing. Her last day alive the younger of the two stalkers followed her into a laundromat, stared at her, then left. An hour or two later, she was dead in her own home, sexually assaulted by two men and then shot in the back of the head five times. Dallas Police failed to follow leads and never took a single report on the two stalkers. I have now identified them, and they are both still alive. Nobody seems to care after over 50 years... I Care... RC