Gary Lynn “Pat” Patterson (September 24, 1963) was a 33-year-old man who went missing on May 3, 1997, after traveling from Waco to El Paso for a job interview. Investigators found his body, severely beaten and buried alive, nearly a year later in the desert.

Dean Arnold Corll (December 24, 1939 – August 8, 1973), also known as The Candy Man, was a serial killer who abducted, raped, tortured and murdered at least 27 teenage boys and young men between 1970 and 1973 in Houston and Pasadena, Texas. He was aided by two teenaged accomplices, David Owen Brooks and Elmer Wayne Henley.

Nydia Lopez-Garcia, a 37-year-old single mother from Mesquite, Texas, had traveled to Las Vegas and was murdered in a hotel room on the Las Vegas Strip. The children - aged 17, 14, and 7 - were with their mother in Las Vegas and now find themselves stuck there, without any family or means to return home.

In 1974, 17-year-old cheerleader Carla Walker went missing after a Valentine's Day dance in Fort Worth. Her body was found a few days later, in a ditch, strangled, beaten, and sexually assaulted. The case went unsolved for 46 years until DNA evidence was finally able to match a longtime suspect.