The Fort Worth trio: Mary Rachel Trlica, Lisa Renee Wilson & Julie Ann Moseley

All witnesses purchase of interest, and suspects are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Welcome to Primetime Crime. I'm your host, Kylie. Let's talk right now on true crime, and then together we are going to work on warming up some cold cases. Let's go Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Primetime Crime. It's Kylie. We are going to go ahead and dive into right now on true crime. So Donna Adelson, whose trial is coming up here in a few months, has officially requested a change of venue. And the primary reason behind this is because there is so much attention and media and there's also been other trials that have brought a lot of. Media attention, podcast attention. So her side is saying that she is not going to be able to get a fair trial in Tallahassee. So they have requested change a venue. And anytime there's a request of change of venue, they cite other instances where cases have received a outpouring. Of media attention. In this particular one, they cited Brian Coberger because they of course got his change of venue granted because there was so much media attention surrounding the case and Essentially, they want the change of venue because they want her to have a fair and impartial trial and be able to get a pull of jurors that might not know about the Abelson's and all of the different transgressions that have happened. But this case has spanned so much time and there has been a lot of publicity surrounding it, especially in Florida, not just Tallahassee, but Florida in general. There is four different trials. The trials, some of them have been very publicized, and there's a lot of public knowledge about this case in general. So I do think it's going to be hard for them to find an impartial jury, but I think it's going to be hard for them to find an impartial jury wherever they go in Florida. So we'll see what ends up happening with that. Honestly, they probably will grant her a change of venue just because in that you take away the likelihood that there will be grounds for an appeal later on. If she doesn't have a fair and impartial trial with a fair and impartial jury, then it's more likelihood that an appeal would be granted later on, and we obviously don't want that. If she is guilty because all of this is allaged. She has not been officially convicted yet. But it will be interesting to see what ends up coming out if they do grant the change of venue. But I will be sure to keep you guys updated. But yeah, the Donna Adison trial is going to be happening this year. It is going to be probably very interesting because there's also a lot of about the other child, the other Adelson child, Rob Adelson, and his testimony and him speaking on his mother's character and all that. They have gone back and forth as to whether or not that that will be allowed to be talked about in the trial because Rob is estranged from his whole family. It is a whole thing. He's probably the smartest Adelson in my opinion, and he got away from his family, which makes him even smarter again in my opinion. But it is going to be interesting to see what all comes out and what if we learn anything new in Donna's trial because there is another layer to this, the murder for hire. The different key players, Donna Adelson is the last one essentially, unless Windy does get charged to face. Trial for the murder for hire of Dan Markel. So it's going to be really interesting to see what comes out, how the trial goes, if you learn anything new and kind of where the jury ends up standing with things. So I'll be sure to keep you guys updated if anything more comes out in regards to. The change of venue. A random update on a case that I haven't thought about in such. A long time. They announced a week ago after I already recorded right now in True Crime that Morgan Geyser, who is one of the two people that was arrested in the twenty fourteen slender Man stabbing case, is going to be released from a mental health facility. She was twelve at the time of this horrific murder. She is now twenty two years old. Her and her classmate and friend lured one of their friends to the woods in Wisconsin, stabbed with this girl nineteen times in order to please this online fictional character called Slenderman. Is a whole hot mess of a case. If you haven't looked into it, I suggest you look into it. But this gal ended up being diagnosed with early onset schizophrenia and now they are going to be releasing her from this mental health facility. Now, the gal who was attacked did suffer life threatening injuries. However, she did survive, but they ended up charging Morgan and her co conspirator with first degree attempted intentional homicide. So Morgan was convicted of the charges, but she was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, and she was sentenced to up to forty years in a psychiatric institution. And now we are currently where we're at, and she is going to be released. There are three psychologists who have worked closely with more and testified to basically her preparedness for a supervised release, and they are quoted as saying at this point, I am in favor in support of her petition for release. Specifically, I don't think she currently poses a significant risk of substantial harm to herself, others, or to property damage. And apparently she also had a suicide attempt in twenty twenty one, but the psychologists have testified that her mental health has improved significantly since then. They say that she can be incredibly self critical and have low self esteem, but she is well spoken and incredibly bright. They also believe that she has a lot of potential to reintegrate back into society. She has been discussing goals for her future, expressing interest in becoming a librarian, and she wants to become a therapist for people with substance abuse disorders. Now, like I said, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia after stabbing, but over the last two years she has not exhibited any psychotic symptoms and she has been successfully weaned off of her medications. She does exhibit symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and autism, and she hasn't exhibited any suicide ideation since twenty twenty one. So she will get the supervisor release within sixty days. I guess they will attempt to help her reintegrate into society. I do hope that she is successful on the outside, that she. Is able to reintegrate and go on to live her life in a normal way. But it definitely doesn't change the fact that she did attempt to murder someone and take someone's life when she was only twelve years old. That one, it's a hard one for me, but I'll continue to keep you guys updated. She is going to be out in the next sixty days, and hopefully she has a really solid and good support system surrounding her. Because I do think regardless of any other issues. Being a WAF and isolated in a system like that for ten years of your life, it has to take its toll. And she was twelve when she went away and now she's twenty two, so it's going to be really interesting. I like I said, I don't wish harm on anybody. Hopefully that intense therapy that she's gone through and these ten years will have paid off and she is ready to reintegrate. But I will keep you guys updated. And with all of that being said, we are going to call that good for right now. In true crime, there's some other little, minuscule, tiny little things going on in the true crime space, but nothing major to report. A lot of Menanda's brothers talk, but not enough to actually talk about it at the moment because they haven't really made any decisions there. But as more things come out, I will be sure to keep you guys updated. And we are going to go ahead and get into today's episode. Beyond the Shadows podcast. In the darkest corners of our universe live spaces where even the light. Won't go, places where terror in the unknown lurk always waiting. Join Ryan and Scott on the Beyond the Shadows podcast. As we pull back the curtain and peer into the darkness. We'll examine hauntings, true crimes, mysteries, UFOs, exorcisms, reincarnations, mysteries, and all things dark. Join us as we go beyond the shadows. All right, guys, today we are jumping in to a brand new unsolved case. We recently had an anniversary pass in this case and it popped up on Facebook. I had not heard of it before, and I decided that that was going to be the episode that I cover this week. So this is the first official unsolved case that I am covering in twenty twenty five. So today I'm going to be telling you about the unsolved disappearances of three girls back in nineteen seventy four in Fort Worth, Texas. It is one of Fort Worth's oldest cold cases to date, and the circumstances surrounding their disappearance leaves us with way more questions than answers. But despite that, we are going to discuss it and try to unpack it together. So let's go ahead and dive right in. Our three missing girls are as follows Mary Rachel True Lisa, who was seventeen years old and by the name Rachel. I am going to be referring to her as Rachel throughout the rest of this episode. So Rachel was a high school student in Fort Worth. She had a brother who was named Rusty, and she also had an older sister named Deborah. Now, Deborah was previously in a relationship with a man named Tommy Trelisha, and they actually were even briefly engaged. However, Deborah ended up saying it wasn't really a real engagement and they ended up parting ways, which opened up the door for Deborah's younger sister, Rachel, who had met Tommy and instantly they hit it off and they ended up getting married in nineteen seventy four, prior to Rachel starting her senior year of high school, so when she was still a junior, and Rachel's older sister, Deborah was living with Rachel and Tommy at the time of her disappearance. So Rachel and Deborah's dad was battling cancer and he was notoriously a hot head, and Deborah and Rachel were both afraid of him. I'm only speculating, but I'm sure that this is part of the reason why Deborah ended up moving in with Rachel and Tommy, So Tommy also had a two year old son from a previous relationship. He had been married and was now divorced, and Rachel very much looked after Tommy Sunshan as her own, even though she was super super young. The next girl we're going to talk about is named Lisa Renee Wilson. She also went by her middle name, so I'll be referring to her as Renee. She was fourteen years old and living in Fort Worth, and she was friends with Rachel. Their families had been longtime friends, family friends, and they would often go on camping trips together. So despite the fact that Renee was fourteen and Rachel was seventeen, they had a lot in common and they were good friends. Renee had a boyfriend named Terry Moseley and they were getting. Pretty serious, as serious as you can get. When you're fourteen, and the morning that the girls disappeared, Terry had actually given Renee a promise ring. Julie Anne Moseley was nine years old and was the younger sister of Terry, who was Renee's boyfriend. Julie and Renee would often spend time together since Julie was Terry's little sister, but Julie didn't know Rachel Trelisha at all. However, soon their lives would intersect and they would forever be known as the fort Worth Trio till present day. So we are on December twenty third of nineteen seventy four, and what started as a simple plan to do some last minute Christmas shopping has turned into. A decade long investigation. Rachel and Renee had planned on going to the mall that day to do some last minute Christmas shopping. Terry Moseley was asked to tag along with the girls, but he had already made plans to go visit with a friend. Renee had planned to be back by four pm because her and Terry had plans to attend a Christmas party together later that evening. Now, Julie, being a nine year old. Two days before Christmas, super excited, wanted to get out of the house, and I'm sure she thought spending the day with Renee and Rachel at the mall sounded so much fun, and she asked if she could tag along. Renee of course obliged, but she wanted to get permission from Terry and Julie's mom. So Terry and Julie's mom, named ray Anne, initially was very hesitant because she didn't know Rachel, but of course she trusted Renee with her daughter, so she eventually gave in. And Rayne had told Julie that she needed to be back by six pm, which wouldn't be a problem because Renee wanted to be back by four. So all of this was panning out perfectly and there was going to be no issues. So shortly before noon on the twenty. Third of December, Rachel picked Julie and Renee up in. Her Odesmobile ninety eight. They made a stop along the way at a surplus store to pick up some items Renee had placed on layaway, and in the later afternoon hours of December twenty third, the girls would arrive at the mall the Seminary Said Shopping Center. The Seminary South Shopping Center opened in nineteen sixty two. It was on eighty five acres of land and was on the corner of a busy intersection. It had nine thousand square feet of four space, and at this point in time, it was the largest shopping center in Texas. It eventually would change its name to fort Or Town Center and would change its name once again in two thousand and four to log Gram Plaza and catered to a predominantly Hispanic population. It is still standing to this day. I will post pictures. Rachel ended up parking her car on the top level of the Seer's parking lot, and this is the last confirmed detail investigators have about their moments that day. Four o'clock PM came and went, six o'clock PM came and went, and the girls did not return home. The families became increasingly concerned, and they decided to drive to the shopping center and look for the girls themselves and kind of try to figure out what was going on. Something must have happened. They do find Rachel's car still parked in the same spot. The doors were locked, and the things that Renee had bought from her stop at the surplus store were in the car. There's also reports that the car was filled with shopping bags meeting the girls had traveled to and from the car with their belongings, but that is said to be false, and the only other things in the car were the things that Renee had picked up earlier in the day, and there was a small wrapped present that Renee had bought for Rachel's step son Sean for Christmas. Once the families arrived, they pretty much immediately called police, and they also went inside to search for the girls, and they asked one of the workers there to page the girls over the intercom, which was done with no response from any of the girls. The family decided at that point in time that they were going to file missing persons reports. They called friends, they called local hospitals. Nobody had seen the girls. Police had said that there was no reason to suspect foul play. However, none of these girls had a history of running away, so this was very out of character for them, and one of them was only nine nine years old, So yeah, we are sure going to be suspecting foul play if two teenage girls and a nine year old disappear. We're not thinking they just plan this elaborate heist and ran away under the ruse that they were going Christmas shopping at the mall. Julie was nine. That makes absolute no sense. They were making plans for later in the day. It made no sense. And I'll say it again, when families are concerned, law enforcement should believe them and follow through. So the next day, which was Christmas, eve, the Star Telegram reported on the girls being missing. That same morning, Tommy, Rachel's husband received a letter in the mail and it read I know I'm going to catch it, but we had to get away. We're going to Houston see you in about a week. The cars in Sear's upper lat love Rachel, so at first glance it did seem that investigator for right the girls have run away. But the letter was addressed to Thomas Trelicia and Rachel only ever called him Tommy. He was never called Thomas ever ever. Ever, her name was also signed wrong. It appeared that the person who had written it had spelled it r acchee initially and then realized that they messed up and they had to put the l over the e to correct it. The letter was also written in ink, However, the envelope was written out in pencil and the return address was simply just Rachel. The postmark on the envelope was also very bizarre. There no city listed, only a zip code which ended up being smudged. They thought it could be seven six h eight three, but the three stamped on it was possibly backwards, so they weren't sure if it was an eight or three or what was going on. Investigators did their best to try to figure out where it was postmarked, and the best that they could tell is that it was either from Eliasville or Weatherford, which were both in Texas. Now, Rachel's family did not believe that Rachel wrote this letter, and the families of the other two girls also did not believe that the girls had run away and that this was a letter that was actually handwritten by Rachel. Like I said, Renee was making plans for the future. She wanted to be back for the Christmas party at four o'clock. And why would she kidnap a nine year old? That doesn't make any sense at all. Rachel's mother, who is named Francis Langston, is quoted as saying, a lot of people made think that they left with someone they knew, But I'll always think until the day I die that the girls were taken end quote. FBI analysts have not been able to prove or disprove that Rachel is the one who wrote the letter. My gut personally is telling me that she did not write that letter and it was sent in an effort to stall the investigation or play into the fact that the girls ran away. Because that is what Fort Worth Police Department was already kind of putting out there. The families ended up offering a reward leading to information that would lead to the girl's location. The families, of course, never believed that the girls had run away, and every did everything in their power to try to find the girls. They distributed missing persons flyers and talked to as many people as they could. They also had reached out to some local newspapers in hopes that they would share the story of the Fort Worth Trio, which. They soon became known as. Luckily, there were some tips. That came in, and one of them was of particular interest. It was a boy who had claimed to be a friend of Rachel, and he said that he saw three girls that day at the mall in the record store, and he said he even had spoken with Rachel. But interestingly enough, he said the girls weren't there alone. Now, I couldn't find much else about who this person was that the girls were allegedly with, if it was a male or a female, or any other details about this interaction. The search ended up continuing and nothing much happened, as law enforcement was still at this point convinced the girls ran away. The families decided to hire a private investigator who was named John Swain, and in April of nineteen seventy five, he received a tip that the girls had been murdered and dumped in Port Lavaca, Texas. He ended up traveling there along with some volunteers to search for anything that supported this theory, and after a grueling search. They ended up finding nothing. In August of nineteen seventy five, John had learned of another lead that he felt was at least worth looking into. It was about a twenty eight year old man who had been working at a store in fort Worth and had been making obscene and unwanted phone calls to girls who had applied to jobs at the place he worked at. So he was essentially taking these. Applications and harassing these women, or if they would list references, then he would harass the references if they were female. So he had been. Calling a fifteen and eighteen year old set of siblings for two years and harassing them. At this point in time, he worked at the same place that Rachel had previously applied to prior to the girl's disappearance, and he had also lived in the same neighborhood, as Rachel's parents did before she moved out when she married Tommy, so this was the first semi solid lead, so they decided to try to set this man up so they could at least bring him in for questioning. John Swain is part of all of this, so they ended up setting him up under the ruse that a fifteen year old girl who he was contacting wanted to meet him at the local mall, so she talked him into giving her his name, and then from there the police were contacted and John Swam got involved. And the plan was set into motion. If nothing else, if he showed up, it would allow them to take him into custody because a twenty eight year old man should not be meeting a minor in a mall parking lot, and he had also been harassing these two siblings, so if nothing else, they could take him in and charge him with at least harassment. So he ended up showing up, but he wasn't hour late, so there was a lot of logistics to try to get into place, but essentially they ended up taking this guy into custody to talk to him about these harassment things that he had been doing over the phone. He did have a record. He had been on probation for five years for indecent exposure. So this guy was creepy. He felt nothing of dropping his pants in public and exposing himself to people. His lawyer ended up getting him out of jail pretty quickly. He did agree to a polygraph test, but I'm unsure if that really ever happened. Despite this being strange, nothing else ever really came of it, and they were unable to tie him to anything. So that was another dead end in this investigation. So we are now coming up on the one year anniversary of the trio's disappearance. There are no new leads and no new information to provide at this point in time. In March of nineteen seventy six, a man from Hawaii who claimed to be a psychic wrote a letter to the Fort Worth Sheriff and stated how the girls had been killed and placed in brush along Texas twenty six in Rushing Star. They again ended up doing a massive search of the area and came up empty handed. Again. Detective Swain thought all of this was a total bunch of crap, but of course they had to take it seriously. Anything that they were led to they had to follow through and be sure, because what if the one time you don't follow through, it's actually a credible, reliable TI In July of nineteen seventy six, the bones of three people were found by an oil field worker in alvin Texas. They initially thought the bones belonged to a male and two females. However, it was then discovered that the bones belonged to three females. Investigators ended up returning to the scene in nineteen eighty one and they ended up finding more bones, and at this point they were able to positively identify them. Technology was not fantastic back then, especially in those regards trying to identify bones, so it took a lot of effort to figure out who these bones belonged to. They ended up not belonging to the missing three girls. John Swain ended up doing a press conference in December of nineteen seventy six, and he said he had been contacted by a man who was acting as an intermediary for someone who may know the whereabouts of the three girls, and he was asked by his contact to publish and state that the informant would not be charged or prosecuted. The info from the contact said that the girls were outside Terran County, but they were unsure if the girls were alive or dead, and the families did believe at that point that the girls were deceased, and the families just wanted to know where the remains of the girls were and they begged for answers. So for the next three years there wasn't hardly any movement at all in this case. It wasn't until nineteen seventy nine when John Swain died. So he was found by his landlord's semi conscious. The landlord called nine to one one and John refused to go to the hospital. He had been heavily drinking and taking drugs. Eventually everyone left and after several hours his family had gone to his apartment to check on him and they found him dead. He overdosed, and they initially said it was an accidental overdose, but they then decided that they were going to rule it a suicide because he knew that he needed help and he refused to get that help, meaning he likely did not want to live any longer, which I think is so said. He allegedly had been. Going through a divorce and was depressed because of the circumstances surrounding this. He had also been kind of having a fall from grace. He had been arrested for a public intoxication and the months prior, and there was also talks about suspending his private investigator license. But he had very much put a lot into finding the three girls. He always had a feeling that the girls were still alive. But a lot of other people looking from the outside in thought that he took on the case for notoriety and he took advantage of the grief of the three families. Now, obviously he was a private investigator, so he had a lot of information on the case, all the different tips that they had followed through on everything. So what happens now that he is dead. So allegedly John Swain ordered all of his case files on the Fort Worth Trio to be destroyed. Upon his death, the files were burned, which mind blown, absolutely mind blown by this. So everything that he had collected over the course of the time he investigated the case were gone. Nothing was given to the family or to police. And this is, in my opinion, just super shady and it's not okay. The poor family who had already been through so much losing their daughters. And they now had to deal with this. Everything that they had done, all the work that they had done over the years, was just completely gone. So in the spring of nineteen eighty one, investigators were called back to Brazoria County to investigate some bones that were found in a bog and they ended up not being a match for the girls. In two thousand and one, the case was officially reopened by the Fort Worth Police Department and was assigned to a homicide detective. Now, according to this homicide detective named Tom, he believes that the girls left willingly from the mall with someone they recognized, new or even trusted, and they do believe that there was more than one person involved in whatever transpired with these girls. The families have never given up on the sert. In two thousand and eight teen, authorities retrieved two vehicles that were sunk in Benbrook Lake which were said to be connected to the case, but again this ended up leading nowhere, at least from what I could find. In twenty twenty three, Clear Channel collaborated with. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and they ended up beginning a campaign to try to bring in new leads and attention to the girl's case. They placed billboards of age progress photos of the three girls across North Texas. This case has officially passed the fifty year mark, with twenty twenty four anniversary passing recently. That was fifty years and we still don't have answers in this case. Anyone with information or potential leads is encouraged to contact the Fort Worth Police Department by emailing Cold Case at fort WORTHPD dot com. Now, in my. Research, I always go down these rabbit holes, and I came across some things from the families which kind of led me into this rabbit hole. So, despite this being a fifty year old case, the families of these girls very much still pressed for information and remember the girls fondly. I found a Daily Mail article which they spoke with some of the girl's families. Rachel's brother Rusty said that at one point in time, a woman had come forward and told him that she's the one that wrote the letter, the one that Tommy received that day. She lived a few houses down from Renee, and that was true. It was actually confirmed that she did live a few houses down from Renee. At the time. She said that her dad had forced her to write the letter, and he talked to her about what to say to cover it up if anyone asked her about it. She thinks that her dad was involved in the girls disappearing. Rusty said that from what they could do, they pursued it as far as they could, and he thinks that they did end up getting her DNA to compare it to that on the envelope, and they also had her rewrite the letter, and a handwriting expert said that the writing didn't match and she wasn't the writer of the original letter. Now. Fran Frances Rachel's mother thinks that the strongest lead that she received came from a man who said he saw the girls in a van behind the Seer store at the mall. She said that he had been in from out of town and was in the parking lot waiting on a friend. He said that he saw Rachel and Rachel had kind of grabbed his door and was asking him to help her, and he was going to help her, but then basically was told by one of the men that was with Rachel to mind his own business, and he said, this is my wife. You're meddling in a family matter. Just stay out of our business. So at the same time, there were two other girls who had exited the same van, but they were quickly gathered and placed back in the van by two other men. So this van is described as light blue. Now, this man had contacted Rachel's family and actually had to sit down with Rachel's mom and he said he knows that. That is who he saw that day. And fran very much believes that this is the story, this is what happened, because this man. Never once wavered on his story. He was consistent from start to finish. And I guess at one point they did want to polygraph this man, but he had some cognitive memory deficits as he got older, and they weren't able to do the polygraph for that reason. But Francis very much believes that this is what happened. The girls were kidnapped and for whatever reason, they were kidnapped and then they ended up being killed. And like I said, this man never wavered in a story. He never changed details. He was consistent from start to finish. Now, the girl's disappearances did cost some riffs in the family, and of course with the girls being missing, it has to be so much on the families to try to navigate that and then having it be unsolved and everything else that transpired. So Rusty and his. Sister Deborah didn't speak for twenty years due to the case. There was even a. Point in time where Rusty even said he thought Deborah could have had something to do with it, but they did prove that she wasn't involved in one way or another. Now, there are some people that believe Tommy, Rachel's husband had something to do with it, because he allegedly. Went bowling the evening that his wife went. Missing, and he remarried shortly after to another seventeen year old. Now Franz said she didn't think he really cared about Rachel being missing, and basically, they have nothing to do with him and they don't want him in the. City limits of Fort Worth. He did pass both of the polygraph tests that he was given. Now, I personally don't believe that Tommy is involved, but. There are those that do. Now. Resty knows for a fact that the girls made it to them all that day, but when they went to leave. That is when he thinks something happened. He said that Fort Worth Police department treating them as runaways for the first year severely hampered the investigation. They didn't dust the car for prints or anything else. There also was no security cameras because it was the seventies, so there was no digital evidence of these. Girls, no cell phone payings, no nothing. Now, at one point the girls' families did believe that the disappearance could be related to to that of another woman who was local and a family friend named Lisha and McGhee, and in January of nineteen seventy eight she ended up vanishing after leaving a Christmas party and she was later found in the trunk of her card capitated in fort Worth. But I don't believe anything has ever really come of this, or ever come of the two cases being connected. They also spoke with Terry, who remembers the girls fondly and knows that his sister would have never went missing voluntarily two days before Christmas. She was nine years old. She was so looking forward to Christmas. She never would have gone off with these other two girls voluntarily. And like playing Devil's advocate. Two teenage girls aren't going to take a nine year old with them and then essentially disappear into thin air. That doesn't make any sense why they would do that, especially Renee asked Terry and Julie's mom for permission for Julie to come to the mall with them. Is that somebody that's planning like this heist, crazy disappearance? Absolutely not. It makes absolutely no sense to me that anyone investigators thought that they disappeared on their own free will. So Terry made a post recently on his Facebook that he had he was kind of sharing a memory, and it said that he had hosted a get together five years ago in honor of the girl's disappearance. And he also made a post for the fiftieth anniversary of the disappearance that I am going to read that now. Well, today makes fifty long years of waiting and wondering about the missing trio. Julie, Renee, and Rachel y'all have all heard the story and it hasn't changed in all of these years. Fifty times their birthdays have come to pass, fifty Thanksgivings and fifty Christmases. Nothing is easier, nothing is better. I wish none of this had ever happened. It seems like a lifelong nightmare. I choose not to have any real celebration on this day. I just can't do it. I've included some photos of all three girls, a couple of Renee and I, a couple of what family I had left. One is from a very early interview, and one is many years later, and finally my favorite photo of Julie. Terry very much posts about the girls. He lost so much that day, and I can't imagine the pain he feels daily trying to navigate this, especially with little to no movement in the case. The thing about this case, with so many of the other ones I cover, this case is solvable. Somebody knows something. More than one person likely knows something. One person could have done this, but there's chances that other people saw something or know something and don't realize they know something, or the person that did this told somebody and they know something. Somebody knows something. Probably more than one person knows something, And unfortunately, the longer the years go on without any movement, the slimmer the chances get of solving us. The person or people who. Did this could be deceased by now, but these families still deserve answers. They need to know what happened to these girls. In the Daily Mail article, they shared a photo which I'll share on my Instagram and Facebook pages that Rachel's mom, Frances puts three angels out each Christmas and memory of the girls, and it is a beautiful picture. I will be sure to share it. And Fran is the last remaining parent of the Fort Worth trio. All the others have passed away without knowing what happened to their daughters. Now, although this case maybe fifty years old, the girls still hold a very special place and everyone that knew them live and we all want answers and justice for the girls. Once I learned about this case and started digging in, I realized, like, people. Probably don't talk about this case enough. I had never heard of it, and I consider myself a pretty knowledgeable cold case person obviously it's what I do. And I also live in Texas, so you would think that I would have heard rumblings of this somewhere along the way, but no, I had never heard. Of it, and I'm so glad that I happened upon it. And once I started digging into it, I knew that it was a case I had to cover, and I wanted to cover it now because the fiftieth anniversary just passed. So these girls deserve justice. Their families deserve justice. They deserve to know what happened to their daughters, what happened to the girls. Terry deserves to know what happened to his girlfriend and his sister. There's so much here that, like I said, it's solvable. The people just have to come forward and let the investigators know what they know and from there let nature take its course and the girls can hopefully be found. So, like I said, neck Mec did do h progress photos of the girls. I will be posting those to social media and I'm going to post a few other pictures some of the pictures that Terry had posted on his social media. These three girls were all very young. They all they did was go Christmas shopping at a mall, a seemingly busy shopping mall, in the middle of the day. What could have happened to them and who could have done it? It could have been somebody that they knew. It could have been under the guise of somebody that they knew. But there is no way that they ran away. And they had this elaborate scheme of going to the mall and taking Julie with them and then they were just going to disappear. None of that makes any sense whatsoever. The weird letter that was addressed to Tommy and the way it was addressed to Tommy doesn't make any sense. Somebody knows who wrote that letter, and somebody wrote the letter. So this letter is so important to figure out the origin of where did it come from, who wrote it, where was it sent from? So many unanswered questions in this case, and there has to be answers. Eventually, answers have to come out, and we need to figure out where these girls are. So that is today's episode. I hope you guys enjoyed this little journey I took you on with the fort word trio. I want to remember them. I want their families to know that. There are still people out there who care about them and want them to be found and want to keep the story out there. Fifty years is a hell of a long time to not have answers, especially when it's your family. Not knowing has to be the hardest thing in the world to. Go day to day and not know. So if any of the members of Rachel Renee or Julie's family are listening to this, I want you to know that there are people out there who still care and who want to find your family and want answers, and that is the whole reason I did this episode. So I will see you guys next week for a brand new Unsolved case, and I hope you have a great weekend ahead and stay safe. Bye.