Dodie Gay Phone Number, Addrs, Age, Contact Info, Public Rerds ᐈ Radaris

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• DODIE GAY FOUND 3 PEOPLE ALABAMA, GEIA AND NORTH CAROLA
• DIDDY ALLEGEDLY COM OUT OF THE CLOSET AS GAY
• DODIE GAY

DODIE GAY FOUND 3 PEOPLE ALABAMA, GEIA AND NORTH CAROLA

Next to disappear was 18-year-old Dodie Gay. As wh Vl’s vehicle, one of Gay’s tir was flat, apparently siari immediately put lol police officers on notice and spread fear through the muny that a kidnapper might be on the the months and years to follow, law enforcement agenci Caddo, DeSoto and Bossier parish vtigated.

So did the Brookshire Police Department Texas, where one victim's mother almost 40 years later, the qutn of what happened to Arrilla Vl and Dodie Gay — and whether their disappearanc were nnected — remas unexplaed disappearanceIn the sprg of 1979, Jimmy Carter was print of the Uned Stat, and Bill Hanna was mayor of Shreveport. Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive” topped the Billboard charts, and new film releas clud “Norma Rae” and “Hair. She had a small mole on the right si of her weeks laterOn the day she disappeared forever, Ladoisha Ann “Dodie” Gay was makg plans for the a month away om her high school graduatn, the 18-year-old also had another major tone loomg — she was newly engaged to be married.

Origally om Washgton, Missouri, Gay had lived Shreveport sce she was about 10 years she attend Fair Park High School at first, she transferred to Northwood High School durg her junr year. A iend later told The Tim that spe the change schools, Dodie ntued to thrive, participatg a number of clubs and extracurricular also worked two part-time jobs Shreveport, at Pizza Hut on Greenwood Road and Regent Sho and Sportswear on North Market boss at Regent told The Tim that Gay handled ctomers well due to her se.

DIDDY ALLEGEDLY COM OUT OF THE CLOSET AS GAY

“Look up and se, ” Gay ed to the afternoon of Friday, April 20, 1979, Gay left her home north Shreveport and head to the Eastgate Shoppg Center to pick up her engagement rg at Wilson’s, a talog first stopped at Regent to get her paycheck, then went to an ATM before drivg to Wilson’s, acrdg to police fil. From Eastgate, Gay lled her mother at approximately 6:30 p.

The next day, The Tim nfirmed that police were lookg for a potential nnectn between Gay and Vl’s disappearanc. Acrdg to se fil, Gay also was seen shoppg si K-Mart that Friday night. A bag and a receipt om purchas ma at K-Mart were found si Gay’s the weeks ntued on, Caddo police terviewed some of Gay’s iends and acquatanc, along wh three wns who had reported seeg her at the shoppg center that night outsi of K-Mart.

A body foundThe batn of Vl’s and Gay’s disappearanc put the Shreveport-Bossier area on high alert.

DODIE GAY

“A man, reportedly armed wh a knife, phed her back to her r and forced her to drive, ” the article went to the Ellerbe Road area, where the woman managed to pe and lled law uld not nfirm whether the abductn had any lk to the Vl and Gay, on June 1, 1979, two highway partment workers were checkg a bridge on La. 510 — a ral two-lane highway DeSoto Parish, 15 southeast of Mansfield — when they me across a woman’s skeletal spected om the begng that the skeleton eher belonged to Gay or Vl. Members of both Caddo and Bossier sheriff’s offic were put on notice when the body was found, The Tim the early eveng of June 1, parison wh ntal rerds would prove that the remas belonged to 18-year-old Dodie Gay.

Deputi said appeared Gay’s body had been thrown om the highway down an embankment at the se of the bridge. A prelimary pathology report termed that Gay’s ath was possibly ed by a blow to the head — a hairle acture on the left si of the skull. Friends and fay mourned Gay, whose funeral was held June 7, 1979, at First Assembly of God Church Shreveport.

" Unanswered qutnsNo one has ever been charged the Vl and Gay s, but police have terviewed var subjects over the years, sometim spects other murr s, hopg to fd out whether they might be late January and early Febary 1985, DeSoto Parish thori were reported to have terviewed nvicted murrers and travelg panns Henry Lee Lus and Ottis Elwood Toole regardg the ath of Robert Davidson, who retired after 40 years wh the DeSoto Parish District Attorney’s Office and DeSoto Parish Sheriff’s Office, still serv as a ld se vtigator for DPSO. He said he went to the scene when Gay’s body was found 1979, but he didn’t get volved the DeSoto police vtigatn until 1980.