About
Cindy Valerie Heller
On Oct. 22, 1984, 23-year-old Cindy Heller was on her way home from a dance class when she pulled up next to a woman having car trouble at an intersection. She drove the woman to a nearby restaurant-bar in southwest Fort Worth, and the two chatted for a couple of hours while the woman attempted to reach friends who could help. Eventually, Cindy left the restaurant alone. However, before driving home, she went to the apartment complex where the stranded driver’s friends lived. She left a note on their door and then vanished. The next day, Cindy’s boyfriend found her car still parked in the lot outside that apartment. The car’s interior had been burned. A little more than two months later, her nude body washed into a pond on the Texas Christian University campus. Cindy had been strangled.
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Clockwise, from top left: 1. Undated photo of Cindy Heller2. 1985 photo of the apartment where Cindy's car was found abandoned3. 1985 photo of the pond on the TCU campus where Cindy's remains were discovered4. 1985 photo of the storm drain that fed the pond where Cindy's remains were discovered