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floor with the long-legged stranger, her friends and family believed she was asleep in her room.
    â€œWell, I’m ready to call it a night,” Ken Taylor announced to his guests. He went to the bedroom he shared with his wife, only to find it empty. Debra’s purse lay on the dresser and her sweater hung in the closet. It was a cool evening, she couldn’t have gone far without a sweater or her purse. Ken Taylor lay on the bed, wondering where Debra could have gone.
    The next morning, Ken Taylor awoke to find himself alone. His wife hadn’t come home. After spending most of the day checking with family and friends, finding no one had seen or heard from Debra since midnight, Ken’s concern turned to fear. His wife was missing. He phoned the police on Monday evening.
    Ken Taylor told police he couldn’t imagine where Debra had gone. It was unusual for her to leave that late at night, especially without her purse. They had made plans for the upcoming weekend—special plans, for a birthday celebration. Debra would turn twenty-six on Friday, Jennifer five on Sunday, and Tarrah eight a few days later. Debra would never miss such a significant event.
    Debra’s good friend Angela Myal agreed with Ken. It was unlike Debra not to let someone know where she was. Her friend’s mysterious disappearance frightened Angela. She decided not to sit around and wait for the police. She had to take action.
    Angela went door to door in the neighborhood, showing Debra’s picture and asking people if they had seen her. Myal hoped to find something to explain Debra’s disappearance.
    One of the many stops Angela made was to a little local bar close to the Taylors’ house.
    â€œDo you recognize this woman?” Myla asked the waitresses.
    The women expressed surprise at how closely Debra resembled one of their own servers, but no one remembered seeing the pretty blond mother of two at the bar.
    March 27, four days after Debra’s disappearance, Ken Taylor was reading the morning edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Sally Field had won the Academy Award for her performance in Places in the Heart, a movie filmed in part in North Texas. The next headline turned Ken’s uneasy feeling to anxiety as he read $50,000 POSTED IN MURDERS OF WOMEN . His distress fast forwarded to panic as he read the article, which described the murders of eight Fort Worth women within a few months prior to Debra’s disappearance.
    The Fort Worth Crime Commission, the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, the Fort Worth Citizens Organization Against Crime, and the Rotary Club of Fort Worth had joined resources to offer the fifty-thousand-dollar reward for information leading to the conviction of the perpetrator or perpetrators in the mysterious deaths. The incentive was sweetened by the addition of another fifty thousand dollars by one of the girls’ fathers.
    Ken’s stomach turned sour as he thought of Debra. Was she safe?

    Construction along the Loop 820 corridor that surrounded the cowtown city of Fort Worth was rapidly increasing. With the ascent of apartments and businesses, access roads were being cleared and paved to transport commuters to and from the city’s newest freeway. SRO Asphalt Company was one of the contractors working in the eastern portion of Tarrant County. They began the project on Monday, March 25.
    On Friday, two of the SRO workers needed a bathroom break. With no facilities nearby, they left the job at the paving site just west of Randall Mill Road and walked to a thick clump of trees about two hundred feet from the roadway to relieve themselves. As they stood concealed in the thick underbrush, they noticed something unusual. Something that hadn’t been noticed in the four days they had been working in the area.
    The two men walked through the thick foliage for a closer look. The pale figure, faceup, spread-eagled amongst the thick brush and trees, was that of a nude woman.
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