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Podcast: Gone Cold - Texas True Crime
Episode: The Broad Daylight Murder of Valerie McPherson
Description: In 2013, 24-year-old Lauren Bump was brutally killed while jogging through San Antonio’s O.P. Schnabel Park, on the city’s northwest side, generally a safe, middle-class area and during the day. The stabbing murder was completely random; it was the act of a sociopath who simply wanted to cause pain and kill. Luckily, he was apprehended and eventually convicted of Lauren’s murder. The terrible crime was markedly similar to one that occurred 25 years before, in 1991. In August of that year, 32-year-old Valerie McPherson was jogging near her Olmos Park, Texas home in the San Antonio area during broad daylig...