He Said His Gun Was Stolen. 46 Years Later, Police Found It Above His Door | True Crime Documentary

In February 1974, 17-year-old Carla Walker was taken from a bowling alley parking lot in Fort Worth, Texas, after a Valentine's dance. Three days later she was found in a culvert near Benbrook Lake. Within weeks, detectives interviewed a truck driver who said his .22 Ruger had been stolen. He passed a polygraph, and nobody came back for 46 years. This is the full story of the Carla Walker case: the night of the dance, the 1974 investigation, a little brother who refused to give up, a stain on a bra strap that no 1974 lab could read, the genetic genealogy breakthrough of July 4, 2020, the arrest, the guilty plea in 2021, and the questions that remain. Every fact in this video comes from court records, police statements and trusted news reporting (sources below). Glen McCurley pleaded guilty in August 2021; his later recantation is presented as his own claim. Subscribe to Docket Noir for new case files every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. CHAPTERS 0:00 The gun that was never stolen 0:45 Fort Worth, 1974 1:25 Love Is a Kaleidoscope 2:10 The parking lot 3:25 The culvert 4:17 A city looking for a name 5:13 The magazine and the truck driver 7:13 The family that never stopped 8:07 The last sample 9:53 "The last name is McCurley" 11:36 The interview room 12:35 The trial and the plea 13:33 The recantation and the open questions 14:52 What we know SOURCES Texas Monthly (Skip Hollandsworth, Aug 2022) · Fort Worth Star-Telegram (2020, 2023) · NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth (2017-2021) · Dallas Morning News (2020) · AP (2021) · CBS Texas (2021) · Houston Chronicle (2020) · Othram (2020) · The ISHI Report (2021) · Oxygen (2019-2021) · NBC Dateline "After the Dance" · FOX 7 Austin · UT Arlington Special Collections (1974 Star-Telegram captions). IMAGES Wikimedia Commons: DOCUMERICA / U.S. National Archives (Fort Worth, 1974, public domain), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Benbrook Lake, public domain), Michael Barera (Tarrant County Courthouse, CC BY-SA 4.0), Redshirt (Fort Worth at night, public domain), Don Beene (Fort Worth skyline, CC BY 3.0), John Margolies / Library of Congress (Camp Bowie Boulevard, public domain). Satellite imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics. Stock footage: Pexels. #truecrime #coldcase #truecrimedocumentary