Going West: True Crime - Susan Eads // 228

Episode Date: August 19, 2022

In August of 1983, a 20-year-old woman working as a cocktail waitress and a DJ was found strangled to death in a vacant field in Texas. When police began investigating her murder, they released the sketch of a mystery man they called “the cowboy”, hoping someone could identify him. Then, her mother began receiving threatening calls from an unknown man, but police had no idea if they were coming from her killer, or who her killer even was. And it would be decades before they would find out. This is the story of Susan Eads. BONUS EPISODES patreon.com/goingwestpodcast CASE SOURCES 1. On the Case with Paula Zahn: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/amzn1.dv.gti.278cf816-35c3-4104-a72a-4f767d24d069?ref_=imdbref_tt_wbr_pvt_aiv&tag=imdbtag_tt_wbr_pvt_aiv-20 2. Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/40482658/susan-lee-eads 3. Cinemaholic: https://thecinemaholic.com/susan-eads-murder-how-did-arthur-davis-die/ 4. Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/31107042/arthur-raymond-davis 5. KHOU: https://www.khou.com/article/news/investigations/missing-pieces/susan-eads-misisng-pieces-podcast/285-1042a429-bf22-4ab6-99a1-25474f142e1c 6. The Galveston Daily News: https://www.newspapers.com/image/17158146/?terms=susan%20eads&match=1 7. TX Department of Public Safety: https://www.dps.texas.gov/coldCase/Home/Details/216 8. Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/shelley-kathleen-sikes 9. Galv News: https://www.galvnews.com/specialsections/article_867f2a89-d0b6-5b32-9b5b-0c68c2333439.html 10. Tyler-Courier Times: https://www.newspapers.com/image/587904050/?terms=susan%20eads&match=1 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1 tbh 1 tbh 1 tbh 1 tbh 1 tbh 1 tbh In August of 1983, a 20-year-old woman working as a cocktail waitress and a DJ was found strangled to death in a vacant field in Texas. When police began investigating her murder, they released the sketch of a mystery man they called the cowboy, hoping someone could identify him.

Then, her mother began receiving threatening phone calls from an unknown man. But police had no idea if they were coming from her killer or who her killer even was. And it would be decades before they would find out. This is the story of Susan Eads was born on April 7, 1963 to Shirley and Doyle Eads in Mississippi, and one of five she had two brothers, Dennis and Sherman, and two sisters named Debbie and Donna. When Susan was 13 years old, her family moved to Seabrook, Texas. So they left Mississippi, headed on over to Texas. And Seabrook is about a 30-minute drive southwest of Houston, Texas, on the Galveston Bay. and it had a population of about 6,000 people at the time. Sadly, in 1972, when Susan was just 9 years old, the family lost her dad, Doyle.

Susan was described by her brother, Dennis, as sweet and a spitfire. Dennis also added, quote, she'd fight a tiger and I would bet on her to win. Susan loved to sing and was dabbling in becoming a DJ. After graduating from Clear Lake High School in Houston, Susan lived at home and saved money working as a cocktail waitress. And her job was on NASA Road 1, which is in Seabrook and it started with waterfront bars and restaurants and filled with locals and tourists alike. On August 30, 1983, 20-year-old Susan left for work around 4.30 pm. Now according to her brother, she worked at a bar called Charles in the Nassau Bay area,

just a 10-minute drive southwest of Seabrook until around 7pm. She then headed to another bar called Prickley Payer in Webster, Texas, just another 5 minutes down the road along the Clear Lake Inlet, on which Seabrook was situated. Susan worked there until about 12.30am on the early morning of August 31st, again this is 1983. So after ending her shift at the prickly pair, Susan and a few friends and co-workers headed to a club nearby called Jason's. Her friends remember her talking to an unknown man and a cowboy hat who was very persistent

and in pursuit of her. They remember him being a white man with a beard, and that he asked her to dance and to buy her a drink multiple times, which she politely declined. So after repeatedly approaching her and Susan repeatedly shooting this guy down, other bargoers remember him seeming pretty frustrated. Leave her alone, dude. Yeah, seriously, just leave her alone. Around 2.30 a.m., she said goodbye to her friends and left by herself.

Heading to the back of the club where her 1976 Chevy Monte Carlo was parked. She was never seen alive again. Her friends remember the creepy man in the cowboy hat leaving just seconds after she did. Which is not surprising, like following her everywhere in the bar and then following her as she leaves out the back by herself in the wee hours of the night. Yeah, he's very persistent. And super, super creepy. So the next day, which was August 31st, so I know I just said August 31st, but that was

because it was in the early morning. But later on that day of August 31st, 1983, a group of college students driving along NASA Road 1 that I mentioned a minute ago, near the Johnson Space Center in Seabrook, saw something in the grass along the side of the road, and they stopped to investigate further. It was the body of a young woman, naked and strangled to death. Susan was found in a vacant lot near the corner of NASA Road 1 and Elam Street, face down beneath a tree trunk with bruises and scratches all over her back and face. The method of killing was very unique.

She had been strangled with her own clothing. She was wearing a black bodysuit that had been tied to a stick that her killer had likely found nearby and they basically turned it into a tourniquet or a device that is usually used on limbs to stop blood flow to a certain area. And this was such a particular method that detectives wondered if it was the work of a serial killer. Yeah, it seemed like kind of a diligent action. Yeah, I mean, and it's very purposeful.

Yeah, and very particular, like I just had not therapy myself with. Absolutely, yeah. Very specific, rather. So still unidentified because they didn't know that this was Susan quite yet, they took her away for an autopsy. And tragically the autopsy did reveal that she had also been sexually assaulted. With that, detectives swept the scene and found a pair of pantyhose, a single shoe, and a set of keys near her body. Susan Shevy was found in the parking lot of the Gulf State's yacht store adjacent to

the vacant lot in which she was found. A match of the discarded keys in the abandoned vehicle led them to search her car. Inside, they found that shoe that matched the one that was found near her body at the crime scene, as well as the scattered contents of her purse in the back seat, including prescription medication with her name on it. Now due to the appearance of the interior of the car, police were led to believe that the attack took place in her car, and that her attacker had then dragged her across the street to the vacant lot where he assaulted and killed her.

Within hours, police confirmed from the state DMV records that the victim was indeed Susan Eads. And again, I just wanted to mention that Susan was 20 years old at the time of her death. So Sergeant Nona Holliman went to tell Susan's mom Shirley herself, and remembers crying in each other's arms at the news of this horrific loss. It had been Nona's first homicide case. Susan and her mom lived just a mile away, and Sergeant Will Hasket said quote, it was just unusual for that to happen in a place like Seabrook. Surely explained that she had never really been nervous

that Susan hadn't come home because she was kind of a night owl and would often crash at friends' houses after being out and about. Especially since she was a cocktail waitress, it makes sense that she doesn't always come home at night because she's out working or when you're in that lifestyle as a bartender, you're in the night life. know when you're in that lifestyle as a bartender you're in the night life. Yeah you're in that industry so it's yeah it's not out of the ordinary to stay out a little later and not you know not come home that night and again

she's 20 years old so so it happens so quickly that she was never even reported missing. Which we don't see a lot in cases at least the ones that we cover where someone's body is found before they're reported missing because a lot of the times killers do try to conceal the body, which we obviously didn't see happen in this case. So Susan's autopsy determined that she had been found about 12 hours after she was killed, and she had also been so close to getting home that investigators believed she was likely followed and that her killer pulled her over, perhaps, as we've seen before, you know, under the guise of like a fender bender. Right. So naturally, they set their sights on that pushy-ass

cowboy guy in the cowboy hat from the club early that morning. After talking to her friends with whom she'd been at the bar, as well as employees of Jason's club, and anyone else they could pinpoint having been there, police put together a composite sketch of the man who had been bothering Susan, and they released this to the public. Tips flooded in, but one from a neighboring police department was particularly intriguing. And this is kind of surprising to me because, I mean, this is Texas. So it's not like having a cowboy hat is unusual.

Sure. Yeah. So the fact that tips came in, even just from a sketch of a white bearded man in a cowboy hat, it's like kind of awesome. Yeah, absolutely. And also, you know, this is back in 1983. So there's not security footage in this bar, outside of this bar, unfortunately.

Right, well, why don't you tell us about this tip? Absolutely. So the Polk County Sheriff's Office in nearby Livingston, Texas had handled a similar case. A young woman had survived a violent attack where she was robbed, raped, and then strangled with her own clothing. With her own clothing?

Yes, so that seems to be an M.O. here. So she managed to survive, but that was clearly not her attacker's intention. Like Susan, she was a server and left work by herself late at night. The man, who was now in police custody, also closely resembled the composite sketch from that night at Jason's club. His name was Travis Skoggins. Upon seeing his picture, Susan's friends positively identified him as the man in the cowboy hat that night.

Like the cowboy, he had dark hair and a mustache and was known to dawn cowboy hats. Travis was interviewed by the Seabork Police Department from jail and he initially claimed that he had nothing to do with Susan's murder. Although he also failed the polygraph test that he was administered, leaving the answer inconclusive. But a short time later, Travis contacted the Seabrook Police Department asking to be interviewed again and he confessed to the rape and murder of Susan Eads. So Travis described Susan accurately and explained that he had followed her to her car parked in the back parking lot, which was also accurate. Concerned that it was a false confession, they tabled him as a suspect to focus on zeroing in

on the real perpetrator. And police assumed that Travis was just interested in like garnering more media attention, which to me is so crazy because if he had even supposedly tried to murder this other woman, and then he didn't murder Susan, but her friends identified him as the man in the cowboy hat who followed her out.

Like it's just weird that this isn't him. Yeah, it's very confusing and that just means that there's a couple, a couple more douchebags running around in the cowboy hat. Yeah, again, no surprise here. It's Texas. So around this same time, Susan's mother Shirley told police that she had been receiving eerie phone calls at the home in which she used to share with her daughter. A man would always call and ask for Susan, but when Shirley would say she wasn't there,

the man would tell her that it was okay and that he would talk to her instead. So he's like, oh that's fine that Susan's eye here, let's chat though. Yeah, the not odd at all. So she described him as a man likely in his 30s just by the voice of him and said that he would threaten that he had naked photos of Susan that he was planning to release. He would always offer to meet Shirley somewhere and show her, but once she would press him on meeting up He would end the call and this is a weird thing to taunt her about like it's not he's not taunting her about Susan being deceased. He's taunting her about nude photos. He supposedly has. Yeah, why?

releasing some photos it does like what's the purpose of that so Back then it took a certain amount of time before the call was able to be traced as we have talked about in other cases that we've covered. But the caller always hung up on Shirley before police were able to trace its origin. A transcript of one of these phone calls reads, I'm gonna be Shirley Heath is gonna be the caller.

You said you knew Susan? Yes. Well, I still can't believe I never knew of you. is gonna be the color. You said you knew Susan? Yes. Well I still can't believe I never knew of you. I don't understand that. Some people have secrets that they like to keep to themselves. You have some pictures of her you told me? I'd like to see them. Just you.

I'm not going to show them to anyone else. Would you want to meet me somewhere? My place or a motel or something like that? The phone calls tormenting Shirley came in nearly every week, and sometimes multiple times per week for almost a year after Susan's death. But then, as mysteriously as they had started, they stopped. Dennis explained that it really took its toll on his mother, describing it as throwing salt in a very raw wound. But neither the police nor the phone company were ever able to trace the calls. Susan's case bore a striking resemblance to another in the area at that time.

The kidnapping of 19-year-old Shelley Sykes and Galveston, Texas. Now, as we mentioned before, Seabrook sits on the Galveston Bay, and the city of Galveston itself is another 30 miles or 48 kilometers southeast of Seabrook right on the Gulf of Mexico. Like Susan, Shelley had been working late at a restaurant and left by herself. She was a student at the University of Texas and was living at home in Texas City, about 15 miles or 24 kilometers from where she worked. She was last seen leaving Gaedo's Seafood Restaurant where she was a server shortly before midnight.

Now in the early morning hours of May 24, 1986, so about three years after Susan's murder, while driving home, she encountered 28-year-old John Robert King, who was from Becliffe, Texas, another Galveston Bay beach town, and 31-year-old Gerald Swarst, who like Susan was from Seabrook. Just over 24 hours later, Shelly's blue 1984-pinto was found abandoned and trapped in mud along an access road to Interstate 45 near the bridge from Galveston Island to the mainland where Texas City is situated along the beach.

Now, the driver's side window was broken, and there were blood stains in the interior of the car, but there was no sign of Shelley. It wasn't until over a year later that John Robert King, likely racked with guilt, called the police after a failed suicide attempt and admitted that he and his friend Gerald had abducted and murdered 19-year-old Shelley. At first, he told authorities that they had buried her near his residence in San Leone Texas, but she wasn't found there. And strangely, it was his blood that was found in Shelley's card, not Shelley's.

I mean, that's kind of an odd circumstance. You don't typically see that happening. Yeah, a strange twist. So he agreed, but, you know, we have, we do have this connection, so we know, we know that's him. So he agreed to give up the relocation of her body in exchange for a lighter sentence, but later recanted the offer. John Robert King died in prison in 2015, and Gerald Zwarst died in prison in 2020.

Both men were sentenced to life in prison, but have never admitted to law enforcement where they left Shelley Sykes' body, which is so frustrating because you're already admitting to it. Like, why would you call police and say, I did this, but I'm not going to give you details and I'm not going down for it. Yeah, I mean, it's really unfortunate, but, you know, just Shelley's family knowing who these men were and that they were potentially involved in their daughter's murder. I mean, that kind of gives some closure, but still, these guys didn't really have to pay for daughter's murder. I mean, that kind of gives some closure, but still,

these guys didn't really have to pay for Shelley's murder. Yeah, and also just, I mean, the fact that they had said that her body was in one place and it wasn't like, why even say that? And now her family doesn't get to bury her. Like, it's just such a dumb situation. I mean, I'm glad that they were in prison for the rest of their lives, at least.

True, true. Because of the similarities in the cases between Susan's and Shelly's, they were investigated, aka Robert John King and Gerald's worst were investigated for the involvement in Susan's murder as well. But no evidence was found to substantiate a link in the cases. A psychic was also tapped to search for answers in the case for Susan's murder, but her findings were inconclusive. So police reported that there were some accuracies and some inaccuracies, and that nothing really

came from it. So we've mentioned these guys in cases before, but the Texas Rangers are an elite organization of experts brought into conduct investigations into especially heinous crimes, cold cases and other extreme circumstances, such as political corruption, and shootings that involve officers. Now, in 2017, 34 years after Susan's murder, one Texas Ranger named Brandon Bess said that he received a call from a doctor named Michael Schwartz, who had noticed similarities between Susan's case and the serial killings of murderer Anthony Shore. Anthony was a convicted child molester and serial killer from Texas, who, at the time

of the tip, was sitting on death row awaiting his fate. Between 1986 and 2000, he raped and killed at least four young women in the Houston area, one as young as nine years old, and sexually assaulted others. In 1998, he was convicted of beating, drugging, and raping his own two daughters, and while awaiting trial was placed on probation and forced to submit a DNA sample.

When the sample was entered into the Kodis database, it came back as a match in the unsolved murder of a 21-year-old woman named Maria Del Carmen Estrada, who was sexually assaulted, strangled, and discarded behind a dairy queen in 1992. So this guy is literally pure fucking evil. Yeah, he really is. So in 2003, when Anthony was brought in for questioning about his involvement in Maria's murder, he confessed to the assault and murder of three other girls

and the binding and rape of another. His first victim was 15-year-old Lori Tremblay, whom he had strangled in 1986 before discarding her body behind a Mexican restaurant in Houston. So it appears that this is kind of this guy's M.O. He'll uh, strangle and murder a girl and then just dump them behind a fast food restaurant. Yeah, exactly. So his second was Maria in 1992, killed the same way, and like you said, also dumped in the parking lot of a local business. His third victim was the only one to have escaped with their life intact. In 1993, he bound and sexually assaulted 14-year-old

Selma Janski, but didn't kill her and fled the scene instead. The following year, in 1994, he beat assaulted and strangled 9-year-old Diana Reba Yar. And finally, in 1995, so the next year, he strangled 16-year-old Dana Sanchez before calling and directing police to her body himself while still evading capture. Anthony claimed that he had come to use his calling card of turnikids as his method of strangulation because he had hurt his finger strangling his first victim, Laurie, with a ligature. A little bit. I mean, what a little bitch. Seriously. Um, anyway.

For you, are you gonna say we have to say that? I was gonna say more, I was gonna say more because this guy just literally pisses me off. But, so, frustratingly, because the most forensic evidence was found in Maria's case, the prosecutor chose to charge Anthony Shaw in Maria's death only. But the jury had heard enough. And after only one hour of deliberation, one hour, he was sentenced to death by lethal injection in 2004, and sat on death row until his execution on January 18, 2018. Yeah, I mean, one hour makes sense.

You don't need a lot of time to figure out this guy is a horrible human being. Yeah, seriously. So when the Texas Rangers began investigating the possible connection, they found more and more clues that pointed toward Anthony's involvement. As we mentioned, his method of killing was always strangulation via tourniquet, even earning him the moniker, the tourniquet killer. He fit the description of a man wearing the cowboy hat in the club on the night of Susan's murder, and more suspiciously, had worked as a lineman for the local telephone company,

which may explain the phantom phone calls that Shirley may have been receiving, Shirley again is Susan's mother, and how they were able to remain concealed. I mean, that definitely makes sense. If he worked as a lineman for a telephone company, he would know what lines to use and what what telephones to not use and how long to stay or not stay on the phone. Exactly. So true.

So Susan's uncle and Anthony's father even worked together, so that is a connection as well. But Anthony insisted that he was not involved in Susan's murder, and that as someone who was interested in young girls, disgusting to admit, he wasn't attracted to Susan. Oh God. Yeah. In his words, quote, look at the picture. My victims don't look like this.

I like the way little girls look. I'm not interested in her. Eh. Eh. However, investigators poked a hole in this theory because at just five foot one inches tall and 100 pounds, Susan was a very small woman, and she was the same stature as Anthony's second victim,

Maria. And at 21, Maria was actually older than Susan. So this whole story of, oh, I like little girls. I mean, you killed Maria who was 21. Right, and I actually think that is a good, kind of a good thing to say on his part. Like, oh no, I wouldn't kill her because she's not my type, but then it's like, you're a cotton all I because of Maria,

you know. So when they ran DNA testing on the male DNA found on Susan's body suit and pantyhose, Anthony's was not a match and neither was Travis Skoggins. So this is obviously very unfortunate because we have two people, I mean, originally they thought that it was Travis Goggins and then you have Anthony and neither one of these guys, like that, that's just to me. It has to be the hardest part of this type of investigation. We'll also with John Robert King and Gerald Zwarst, like there's all these potential suspects that you think could do it.

Like you're looking at their other crimes and you're making these connections. Yeah, you're like a middle ear. Yeah, but somehow none of these guys did it. So in 2020, however, 37 years after Susan's death, law enforcement got a hit in the case of Susan Eads' unsolved murder. The DNA that they had collected from the crime scene, three years before DNA profiling even began, had matched with someone on a genealogy site. God love genealogy.

Oh my God, yeah, it's just the best outcome. So the relative of this DNA match had been a child at the time of the murder and had not known the perpetrator, so was helpful in cooperating with investigators. The lead turned out to be correct and the quote cowboy finally had a name. Arthur Raymond Davis. Now upon looking him up, police found that Arthur fit the description perfectly, a white man with dark hair and a mustache, he had been 35 at the time of Susan's murder, and he was even known to wear cowboy hats, and we of course have a picture of this and will

post it on our Instagram. They believe that he followed Susan out of the bar, got her to pull over her car, then dragged her to the field, and assaulted her and killed her there. It's so crazy thinking that it took this long to find a guy that so many people noticed harassing Susan the night she was killed. Like, her friends and all these people saw this man. He was out in the open, very openly interested in her, and followed her out, and these people saw this man. He was out in the open very openly interested in her and Followed her out and it still took this long of course not for lack of trying. Yeah, but and you know

We talked about the description of this person earlier and how it's kind of a vague description It is white guy with the mustache and the cowboy hat So I mean I can imagine how hard it was not, again, not having security footage to be able to track this guy down. True. Again, yeah, you're right. Very basic description. So Arthur was a fishing boat captain and a Vietnam veteran.

But in a cruel twist of fate, he was already dead. In fact, he had died just months after he killed Susan, which is so crazy. So insane. So in late 1983, Arthur was involved in a serious one car accident just a mile away from where Susan's body was found. If that is not some sort of divine intervention shit, I don't know what is. Like the fact that like he literally died a month after he killed Susan and was in just like a car wreck by himself. Wow. I mean it's kind of it's frustrating because you don't

want him to have lived all this time and you know gotten away with it for 37 years because that's not fair. You got to live your whole life in Susan didn't. Sure, but you also want to see justice. Well, yes. So that's what I mean. It's like you're right. Like it is kind of this amazing thing that he didn't live much longer than her because he didn't deserve to anyway. Yeah, exactly. But also at the same time, not having the answers that I'm sure the family wants, even though we can pretty much guess that he was really pissed that she rejected him, which she can rightfully do. And you know, he wanted to assault her. Yeah, and it's just devastating.

Like you're saying, it's very devastating for the family to go so long without answers. But I'm just so glad that genealogy exists for this reason. Totally agree. So after this car accident that Arthur had, he was hospitalized for a month. And he died of his injuries on January 16, 1984. This was, of course, cold comfort to Susan's family, friends, and the investigators

who had worked on her case for almost four decades. Sergeant Nona Holliman, the one to break the news of her daughter's gruesome murder to Susan's mother Shirley, had retired in 2014, but still thought of the family and the case often, and she was thrilled to see it get the closure that it deserved. She said, quote, Now Susan can finally rest, and we know who did this to her. So, Nona had actually found out about the case being solved on her birthday and called it her birthday present. But it seemed like a shallow victory when there was no other information to offer the

loved ones that she left behind. The circumstances surrounding her death are still shrouded in mystery. Like who Arthur Davis really was, why and how he did it, and if you had done it to anyone else, which is obviously a huge concern because if you do it once, you can do it again. Sure. And on top of all the questions that he left behind, Shirley Eads, who a Susan's mother, passed away in 1992, so less than 10 years after Susan's murder, without ever knowing

what really happened to her daughter. But the biggest mystery of all are those taunting phone calls that Shirley received for months after the murder, because now we know that this couldn't have been Arthur because the calls persisted after Arthur was hospitalized and later died, so he couldn't have been the one behind them. So who was? So just some jerk was making these calls. It's just so weird to me. And surely this person knew, or surely this person knew that Susan was no longer alive. So what a

weird thing to happen and it not to be the killer. Yeah, a weird and really disgusting thing to do. And we may never know who it is, but there is still a tip line open for any information about the circumstances of Susan Eads' death. And Texas Crime Stoppers, which you can reach at 1-800-252-TIPS or 8477, is still offering a $3,000 reward for information. [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ Thank you so much, everybody, for listening to this episode of Going West. Yes, thank you guys so much for listening to this episode,

and on Tuesday, we'll have an all-new case for you guys to dive into. What a mysterious story. I just can't get over those phone calls. And just the fact that he died months after Susan, like what a story. I can't get over the fact that there were, you know, multiple people who investigators thought could have been responsible for Susan's murder.

And it ended up just being this random guy. Yeah, this guy like totally off the radar, and again, somehow he was not on police's radar, despite the fact that he was witnessed inside, harassing her, and just the fact that she was minding her own business was not interested in this dude, and he wouldn't take no for an answer, is so frustrating about so many young women's cases

that we see this all the time. But also how crazy is it? I mean, just how insane is it that he literally died a month after taking Susan's life? In the same area of where her body was found. So, yeah, I mean, that obviously was very hard for investigators because they're looking for somebody who doesn't even exist anymore.

Well, and I wonder, like, you know, with this single car accident, was it purposeful? Did he crash on purpose? Was he trying to kill himself? Was he drunk? Like, what happened there? You know, it's single car accident. Yeah, I really wish we had more information on Arthur Davis because it's just like, like, who the hell is this guy?

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