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    tealstarAnna Merlan
    4/11/16 5:25pm

    Cox locked herself out of her car and walked to a nearby gas station to phone her boyfriend to bring her a spare; the police wouldn’t allow her to make a long-distance call from the station.

    This part is so upsetting.

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      Suck It, Trebektealstar
      4/11/16 5:29pm

      Yeah, way to protect and serve the community.

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      mazzieDtealstar
      4/11/16 5:36pm

      There are no unsavory characters around jails, right?

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    randilynisFINDILYNAnna Merlan
    4/11/16 5:27pm

    It seems like serial killers (for obvious reasons) are drawn to careers as Long Distance Truckers.

    And this part is so horribly ironic:

    She disappeared on July 15, 1997, after she toured the Denton City Jail with her criminology class. Cox locked herself out of her car and walked to a nearby gas station to phone her boyfriend to bring her a spare; the police wouldn’t allow her to make a long-distance call from the station. After finishing the call, Cox bought a soda and began walking back to the car. She never made it.

    I’m glad her parents have answers, but I’m never really sure there is such a mythical creature called “Closure”

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      SL8Rgirl81randilynisFINDILYN
      4/11/16 5:36pm

      I had a stalker-lite that was a long haul truck driver a few years back. Lite in that he never followed me outside of my job, but often made “joke/threats” about taking me against my will (out to dinner, or just away... depended on his mood) and how since he was a LH driver no one would ever know where he took me. I got to the point where I refused to help him, and my boss got on my case because he was “harmless” and how I couldn’t take a “joke”... that is until my male coworker went into the boss’s office, gave him the lowdown of how scary the guy really was (he had actually been alone in a car with the guy a few times, we worked in rental car, and giving customers rides home was part of the gig)... I never had to help the guy in person again. After my boss told me I didn’t have to help him, the dude brought in his girlfriend to try to make me jealous. I think I may have barfed.

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      randilynisFINDILYNSL8Rgirl81
      4/11/16 5:37pm

      *chills*

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    wishtAnna Merlan
    4/11/16 5:23pm

    After Cox vanished, her mother, Jan Bynum, was left to raise her daughter Alexis, who is now older than Cox was when she disappeared.

    Oh look, it’s the saddest sentence in the world.

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      Cafienewisht
      4/11/16 5:42pm

      Yes, so much, that broke my heart. We met our daughter when she was 19 months and I can’t help but think that we are living the exact time they’ll never have. Looking at their picture and I just want to love the pain away from that baby who doesn’t even know it’s coming yet.

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      KarenSmithKissedHerCousinCafiene
      4/11/16 9:51pm

      Oh my god. I managed to not lose it while I read the article. And then I read this comment. Tears. Everywhere.

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    Ms.ChanandlerBongAnna Merlan
    4/11/16 5:29pm

    The police wouldn’t let her make a long distance phone call????? WTF? In my head, I know that the only person responsible for her death is that terrible man, but that part really upsets me and just makes me wonder what if.

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      Suck It, TrebekMs.ChanandlerBong
      4/11/16 5:32pm

      Yeah, I deleted a comment that said, “She might be alive if they had let her make a damn call” or maybe escorted her back to her car (?) because ultimately this piece of garbage is responsible for what happened to her. But damn. Maybe if he had driven by and seen her with a cop he would have kept on driving. Ugh. So awful.

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      PresidentFoxyJMs.ChanandlerBong
      4/11/16 5:39pm

      I live in Brazoria County TX and can verify that especially the police officers below a certain age are a special kind of asshole.

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    Memorykid-9Anna Merlan
    4/11/16 5:45pm

    I'm sure the taxpayers are glad the police have their best interests in mind by not letting any of them use their phones for brief long-distance calls.

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      cvrodMemorykid-9
      4/11/16 6:32pm

      Seriously, right? She wasn’t going to use their phone to make a call to her best friend and gossip about her day. She locked herself out. It was kind of an emergency. And I think police are supposed to help people out in certain situations, such as an EMERGENCY.

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    Ladyheatherlee 2016 EditionAnna Merlan
    4/11/16 5:14pm

    I’m so glad that her family finally has answers, although the answers are really shitty. There can’t be anything worse than just not knowing.

    :(

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      recidiviciousAnna Merlan
      4/11/16 6:28pm

      I’m glad her family can at least stop wondering if she’s still out there somewhere. The not knowing is over, at least.

      There are really so many horrifying stories from this part of the state and this creep Reece sure wasn’t the only one out there. I remember being a kid in Galveston and seeing flyers posted up everywhere for a couple of women who disappeared there in the 80s and still have never been found. And then we had the Killing Field where a lot of women and girl’s bodies were found, that was in the town I lived in through high school. And I remember when Jessica Cain disappeared, since I was still in high school at the time. She was another one I used to see flyers for all the time. It wasn’t exactly a great place to be a young woman, that’s for sure.

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        The Jishrecidivicious
        4/11/16 6:49pm

        I grew up in Friendswood and was in sixth grade when Laura Smither disappeared right across the street from the town’s softball fields where I played. It went from being a virtually crime-free safe neighborhood to one where you hesitated to let your kids go outside to play alone.

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        recidiviciousThe Jish
        4/12/16 9:27am

        For a while this Reece guy was a suspect in Laura Smither’s death, I’m not sure if they ever did sort out who did kill her. It’s bad when it could have been any one of several psychos known to be in the area at the time.

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      VulcansAreHeartbreakersAnna Merlan
      4/11/16 7:15pm

      He was convicted of first-degree rape in 1987, as well as kidnapping and sodomy charges, and was sentenced to 25 years. An appeal brought that down to 15, and Reece ended up serving nine. He was released in 1996, and came to Texas the same year.

      Authorities have since named Reece as a suspect to attacks on at least five girls and women, all in 1997.

      How fucking little do we value women. It’s right here. The violence of this ‘man’ was well-know, and yet we let him off easy. Now he’s serving 60? I wonder when he’ll actually get out. After all, can’t ruin a poor man’s life over some worthless women. /rage

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        DarkTowerLateArrivalAnna Merlan
        4/11/16 5:47pm

        I hate when all I can think of to say are the most cliched things, in this case about closure. It’s all inadequate.

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          freshpickedAnna Merlan
          4/12/16 10:05am

          This poor woman and her poor sweet baby. At least the daughter can know for sure after all these years that her mom didn’t abandon her. I imagine she must have dealt with horrible thoughts over the years about where her mom went and why. Such a sad story. And even sadder that there are so many out there like this that are still missing.

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