Junction, TX Area Cold Cases

Name
Celestine BroadusAge
27Cause of Death
TraumaInfo
On november 25, 1990, celestine rogers was found deceased at a park at 2100 redbud trail. She died as a result of blunt force trauma.Agency
Fort Worth PD
Name
Jesus NanaresAge
32Cause of Death
ShootingInfo
On october 29, 1983, jesus nanares was shot and killed while he sat in his car, which was parked in front of his residence: 1260 park place. The suspects were in a white car with what were described as “loud mufflers.”Agency
Fort Worth PD
Name
Daniel GallowayAge
Cause of Death
ShootingInfo
On october 5, 1999, daniel galloway was with his friend in a red ford pickup truck. They had just left the sutton homes housing project, and were on ih 35 between pine street and new braunfels when a car with three to four black males pulled up alongside them. The suspect vehicle was described as a gray midsized fastback-style 2-door car. Daniel "Flipped" them off, and shots came from the suspect vehicle. Daniel was shot, and the driver went to ne baptist hospital where galloway was pronounced dead from a gunshot wound.Agency
San Antonio
Name
Crystal NitcherAge
3Cause of Death
HomicideInfo
First, it was 2-1/2-month-old tammy in january 1972. Two months later in march, 2-year-old sarah. Fast forward four years — and to another state — to 3-month-old crystal. And finally, almost a year to the day after crystal’s death, the youngest of them all — misti, just 5 weeks old.One by one, helen nitcher’s daughters all died under mysterious circumstances.Patterns got missed. Medical examiners struggled with inconclusive autopsy reports. But helen c. (née tenery) nitcher, later known as crystal price, had two dead daughters within 2-1/2 months — in iowa, that is — until nitcher relocated and the pattern repeated in abilene, texas.Two more dead infant daughters followed.News reports on the four girls’ successive deaths also had a strikingly familiar ring; officials reported all three infants, as well as the 2-year-old, dead on arrival.The mother’s explanations for the short-lived lives were conflicting at best; the stories varied depending on the city and state where the obituaries appeared, leaving astute readers as mystified as iowa and texas medical examiners, who never could quite pinpoint exact causes or manners of death.Iowa coroners had no way of knowing nitcher left iowa after her first two daughters’ deaths, only to have two more infants die in texas. And texas officials apparently were unaware of the two previous iowa deaths.Agency
Iowa
Name
Misti NitcherAge
5Cause of Death
HomicideInfo
First, it was 2-1/2-month-old tammy in january 1972. Two months later in march, 2-year-old sarah. Fast forward four years — and to another state — to 3-month-old crystal. And finally, almost a year to the day after crystal’s death, the youngest of them all — misti, just 5 weeks old.One by one, helen nitcher’s daughters all died under mysterious circumstances.Patterns got missed. Medical examiners struggled with inconclusive autopsy reports. But helen c. (née tenery) nitcher, later known as crystal price, had two dead daughters within 2-1/2 months — in iowa, that is — until nitcher relocated and the pattern repeated in abilene, texas.Two more dead infant daughters followed.News reports on the four girls’ successive deaths also had a strikingly familiar ring; officials reported all three infants, as well as the 2-year-old, dead on arrival.The mother’s explanations for the short-lived lives were conflicting at best; the stories varied depending on the city and state where the obituaries appeared, leaving astute readers as mystified as iowa and texas medical examiners, who never could quite pinpoint exact causes or manners of death.Iowa coroners had no way of knowing nitcher left iowa after her first two daughters’ deaths, only to have two more infants die in texas. And texas officials apparently were unaware of the two previous iowa deaths.Agency
Iowa