The Punctured Tire: The Unsolved Cases of Arrilla Vaul and Dodie Gay

A Simpler Time True Crime

Send us a textIn 1979, a woman drops her husband off to his shift at K-Mart in a shopping plaza in Shreveport, Louisiana. She doesn’t make it too far back towards home when she realizes her tire is flat. She pulls over to the side of the road and vanishes. While her husband was immediately fearful of foul play, some recent odd behavior led others to think maybe she had just run away. That was until a second young woman went missing just weeks later, from the same shopping plaza, and also had a punctured tire. This woman’s body would later be found, and the community would begin to panic about a predator in their midst. Real life events blended with tales and urban legends, with similar cases popping up, and evidence of violence lurking in the area. Through the years, investigators have gone through twists and turns, with some suspects in the case seeming more likely than others. But as of today, nobody has been held responsible for what happened to these two young women. TIPS: Crimestoppers [phone] Case suggestions: [email protected]
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