| 3/15/2008 - Timothy Sanchez |
On March 15th investigators with the Glasscock County Sheriff’s office discovered the body of 18 year old Timothy Sanchez lying in the middle of Highway 137. Mr. Sanchez had been stabbed numerous times. He was last seen driving a 1997 white Dodge-Neon on Saturday March 15th. The Neon was recovered the next day in the 1500 block of South Grant in Odessa. Sanchez formerly of San Angelo was living in Odessa at the time of his death.
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| 11/9/2007 - Gabriel Rodriguez |
On Friday, November 9 at approx 9:11 pm 34 year old Gabriel Rodriguez was found dead in his red Dodge Ram pickup which was parked in the east alley of the 3100 blk of Pleasant. The victim had suffered a gunshot wound to the head with an unknown caliber weapon
UPDATE: On 12-3-2007 a warrant was obtained charging Geechie Devain Templeton for the murder of Gabriel Rodriguez. Templeton is still at large. See WANTED SUSPECTS
UPDATE: Geechie Devain Templeton was arrested on February 8, 2008 in Topeka Kansas and charged with the murder of Gabriel Rodriguez.
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| 11/17/1996 - B.L. King |
| On the evening of November 17, 1996 the body of B.L. King was found at 807 W. 33rd. Mr. King died from multiple gunshot wounds.
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| 7/18/1996 - Baby "John Doe" |
| Few of us will ever forget the sight of an officer lifting the body of a newborn baby from a trash dumpster in Odessa on July 18, 1996. Homicide investigators have spent hundreds of hours trying to identify this child but have had no success.
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| 7/7/1994 - Denise Christie |
Denise Christie was last seen in the parking lot of a motel at 2nd and West County Road on about January 7, 1994. Approx. 4 weeks later her body was found in a vacant lot just 2 blocks away. She had been strangled to death.
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| 7/4/1993 - Steve Brosch |
On the night of July 4, 1993 Steve Brosch was passing thru an area in the 2000 block of Moss Ave. when he saw several grass fires which were threatening near by homes. As he attempted to help put out the fires, Brosch was struck by a vehicle that left the scene. He died a short time later from the injuries he sustained.
Hubert Dean then 69 years old was found unconscious outside his home in the 300 blk of Lindy around 3 a.m. on January 16, 1978. The apparent victim of a robbery he later died from his injuries. Dean was known to carry large sums of money on his person in his capacity as a deliveryman for an Odessa liquor firm. For 25 years detectives have been stumped. There were no witnesses and Dean never regained consciousness to tell what happened.
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| 10/8/1991 - Larry Willsey |
| On October 8, 1991, Larry Willsey was at the Party House Lounge on West County Road when two masked individuals entered the establishment and robbed several customers at gunpoint. During the robbery Mr. Willsey would not comply with their demands and was beaten severely. He suffered several blows to the head which ultimately led to his death.
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| 12/30/1990 - Mary Kathleen Rodriguez |
| On December 30, 1990 the beaten and battered body of then 26 year old Mary Kathleen Rodriquez was found inside the residence where she worked and lived in west Odessa. Mary Kathleen had been last seen alive on December 28, 1990. It was determined that she died as the result of several blows to the head and investigators believe she knew her attacker.
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| 2/18/1989 - Wendy Burdette |
February 15, 1989 was the last time anyone saw 15 year old Wendy Burdette alive. A couple of days later a man came across her body on a back lot in the 2800 blk of west 2nd street. Wendy had been stabbed numerous times.
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| 7/30/1988 - Brenda Kay Van Ginkel |
| Brenda Kay Van Ginkel’s body was found approx 50 yards south of 42nd and Comanche in western Ector County on July 30, 1988. She was killed by a gunshot wound to the head and chest.
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| 5/1/1986 - Debra Sue Moore |
| In May 1986, officers from the Odessa Police Department were responding to a 911 call at an apartment complex in the 4600 blk. of Oakwood where they found Debra Sue Moore lying in a pool of blood in her living room floor. Apparently Ms. Moore had walked outside and was attacked. She later died from a stab wound to the chest.
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| 8/21/1984 - Janet Gregston |
On August 21, 1984 officers found the body of Janet Gregston on North East Loop 338. Mrs. Gregston had been stabbed numerous times. She was 7 months pregnant. Gregston had placed an ad in the newspaper for the sale of her car and deputies believe her killer may have been test driving the car when he killed her.
Police composite of suspect in the Janet Gregston slaying.
Do you recognize this man ?
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| 6/1/1984 - Bob Sewell, Jr. |
Bob Sewell, Jr. would have been 42 years old this year, but in June of 1984 someone decided his life would end on an oilfield road in western Ector County. His body was found about five miles from where he lived in the 12000 blk of Citation. He died from multiple gunshot wounds and appeared to have been beaten.
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| 8/4/1982 - ALvin Brooks Johnson |
| On August 4, 1982 investigators discovered the body of 45 year old Alvin Brooks Johnson in a field of Murphy street. He died from blunt force trauma to the head.
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| 8/23/1981 - Carmen Croan |
| It has been over 20 years since the brutal slaying of Carmen Croan. Her body was found on August 23, 1981 on an oilfield lease 12 mile north of FM 1936 and Hwy 158.. Her throat had been cut. She was only 18 years old. Investigators have determined that she may have last been seen in the early morning hours of August 23rd at a nightclub on 8th street.
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