Where is Cindy Walker Now?

On the night of February 17, 1974, highschool junior Carla Walker was sexually assaulted and later strangled to loss of life after being snatched away from her boyfriend’s automobile in Fort Price, Texas. Nonetheless, although her physique was recovered three days later, as examined on NBC’s ‘Dateline: After the Dance,’ the true id of Carla’s assassin remained a thriller for almost 50 years. So now that we all know it was solely the continual efforts of the investigators and her family members, particularly her sister Cindy Walker, that introduced her justice, let’s discover out extra concerning the latter, we could?

Who’s Cindy Walker?

Cindy Walker was simply 18-years-old when her heat and bubbly youthful sister, Carla Walker, 17, was kidnapped by a then-unidentified man, by no means to be seen alive or heard from once more. She nonetheless remembers that she was at residence when Carla’s boyfriend, Rodney McCoy, frantically began banging and ringing their doorbell to get their consideration, solely to repeatedly say, “They’ve obtained her” whereas bleeding from the pinnacle. Thus, it took Cindy and the complete household a couple of moments to grasp the scenario, however as quickly as they did, they contacted the authorities and started an in depth seek for the teenager.

Carla’s final phrases to her accomplice have been to make sure he will get away, and that’s one thing that has all the time made Cindy extremely emotional. In any case, she as soon as mentioned, “I do know [my sister] was terrified and for her to say, ‘Go get assist’ [to Rodney, and then to their assailant,] ‘I’ll go together with you, don’t damage him,’ that was the sort of particular person she was.” Regardless of figuring out all the things, the household nonetheless waited for the teenager to indicate up once more in some way, that’s, till her stays have been present in a ditch close to Benbrook Lake on February 20, 1974. Cindy subsequently selected to not cease pushing till that they had all of the solutions.

The place is Cindy Walker Now?

For years, Cindy Walker and her brother Jim Walker — who was solely 12 on the time of Carla Walker’s passing — have saved in contact with the officers and by no means gave up hope. Therefore, the identification of Glen Samuel McCurley in 2020 was a large reduction for her, however not as massive as when he modified his plea from not responsible to responsible in the midst of his homicide trial in August 2021. “I want you had finished this a very long time in the past,” Cindy remarked in her sufferer impression assertion in court docket.

Cindy additional added, “I wanna know if you happen to’ve finished this to anyone else. It is advisable to convey that out, as a result of these households must know, too. You don’t have anything to lose at this level… as a result of it’s been hell.” Within the press convention that adopted, the mid-60-year-old said, “I don’t assume there’s closure. I don’t actually even know what closure means since you gained’t ever overlook it. By no means ever.”

In different phrases, even after almost 48 years, Cindy continues to grapple with the lack of her sort and loving youthful sister, Carla, all of the whereas ensuring to maintain her recollections alive in her coronary heart. Coming to her private life, for the reason that retired Aledo, Texas native is a proud wife, mom, and grandmother, she now goes by both Cynthia Stone or Cindy Stone.

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