FORT WORTH (WBAP/KLIF News) – Fort Worth police are hoping the release of a decades-old letter about the brutal murder of a local teen can help solve the case and bring a grieving family some closure.
17-year-old Carla Walker was kidnapped, raped and strangled to death in February of 1974. Investigators said she was in the car with her boyfriend when the suspect approached, hit the boyfriend over the head and grabbed Carla in a bowling alley parking lot.
Her body was found three days later in a culvert near Benbrook Lake.
The case was never solved but someone did send a cryptic note in which the author claims to know who killed the teen. The letter included blacked out words which could have been a name. The words “killed Carla Walker in Benbrook. P.S. It’s hard to say but it’s true” and it’s signed “Sign 10100”.
Detectives are optimistic about the possibility that the letter’s recent release will jog someone’s memory or tug at their conscious.
“We’re hoping this will spark somebody to either come forward or the author come forward and say ‘this is what else I know’ to not just solve this case but bring some closure for the family,” said Officer Buddy Calzada.
The family has been vocal over the years about their path to gettiing justice for Carla. Calzada said he and the Fort Worth Police Department will never stop looking for the man who took the Walker family’s daughter’s life.
“There’s just a wondering, you know, a curiosity of what took place. We can’t say that this will 100 percent give them closure but hopefully it can give them a little peace and the family can say ‘okay at least we know what happened’, ” he said.
Anyone with information is asked to call Fort Worth Police.
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