Between September 1984 and January 1985, a string of brutal homicides and disappearances spread fear among the female residents of Tarrant County, Texas. Four young women and a teenage girl would lose their lives before the crime spree ended, as mysteriously as it had begun. Police have yet to name a suspect in the case, which still remains unsolved. On the night of September 30, 1984, firefighters were called out to an apartment occupied by Cindy Davis, on the city's southwest side. They extinguished a small fire, traced to a cigarette dropped on the bed, but there was no sign of the 23-year-old aspiring model. Neighbors reported the sound of loud voices, raised in anger, and a car squealing away from the scene shortly before the blaze erupted. Three weeks later, on October 22, 23-year-old Cindy Heller stopped to help stranded motorist Kazumi Gillespie on the southwestern side of Fort Worth. Though strangers, the women spent two hours together in a tavern, while Gillespie tried in vain to phone a friend. When they split up, Gillespie remaining at the bar, Heller agreed to drive by the friend's apartment and leave a note on his door. It was there when he came home at midnight, but Cindy Heller had vanished. Her car was found nearby, next morning, the interior gutted by fire, dry blood smeared on one door handle. No trace could be found of the two-time entrant in local beauty contests. Police noted striking similarities in the apparent abductions -- victims of identical age and given names, missing in circumstances that included suspicious fires -- - but they were not prepared to link the cases yet. Shortly before midnight on December 10, Angela Ewart left her fiancee's home in the Wedgewood section of southwest Fort Worth, stopping for gas at a station nearby. From there, the 21-year-old model and one-time beauty contestant vanished into limbo, her car discovered the next morning, doors locked, with a broken knife Iying nearby. A flat tire, reported to police by passing motorists, had been switched with a spare by the time patrolmen arrived on the scene. On December 30, 1984, 15-year-old Sarah Kashka left her home in Denton for a party in Fort Worth, arriving to find the festivities canceled. Sarah's date dropped her off at a Wedgewood apartment, not far from the station where Angela Ewart was last seen alive, but her bad luck was holding. The friends she intended to visit were out for the evening, and Sarah had vanished before they came home. Two days later, her body was found in a marshy area near Mountain Creek, in southwest Dallas, torn by stab wounds that had caused her death. Police initially divorced her murder from the disappearances, citing "a difference we really can't talk about," but they later hedged their bets. As Detective Ben Dumas told newsmen, "We can't establish any thread, because we only have one girl found." That changed on January 5, when children playing on the campus of Texas Christian University stumbled over Cindy Heller's decomposing corpse. She had been tortured, strangled, and beheaded, with her skull recovered from a nearby lake on January 9. That same day, 20-year-old Lisa Griffin was found, shot to death execution style, in southwestern Fort Worth. Sheriffs deputies charged a former mental patient with that slaying, but he was released when his fingerprints failed to match others lifted from Griffin's abandoned car. A final, grisly twist was added to the case on January 23, 1985, when construction workers uncovered human bones beside some railroad tracks, ten miles south of the Wedgewood "murder zone." Forensic tests identified the skeletal remains as those of Cindy Davis, missing since September, but the evidence would bring authorities no closer to a suspect in the case.