[7] On the evening of February 17, 1974, Walker was sitting with her boyfriend, Rodney McCoy, in his car in the parking lot of Brunswick Ridglea Bowl after attending a dance at Western Hills High School.

[1] The car door suddenly swung open and the two were assaulted by an unknown assailant, who dropped the magazine from his gun during the attack.

[8] His last memory of the incident is Walker being grabbed and taken by the unknown male, whom he described as a white man, about 5 feet 10 inches tall, as she screamed for help.

[11] The police had several suspects in mind during the initial investigation and were able to obtain samples of bodily fluids from the crime scene; Walker's dress and other clothing were also preserved.

[2] Leads from Othram and a follow-up investigation by Detectives Wagner and Bennett led to the identification of 77-year old Glen Samuel McCurley as a suspect in the crime; McCurley had been interviewed by police shortly after the murder, as he had purchased a .22 Ruger pistol that used the same magazine as the one dropped in the parking lot of Brunswick Ridglea Bowl, but claimed the gun had been stolen from his truck.

The evidence presented in court included the .22 Ruger pistol McCurley had claimed was stolen in 1974, which had been found concealed inside his home.

"[2] Investigators believe McCurley may have been involved in the rapes and murders of several other young women in the Fort Worth area in the 1970s and 1980s, although he was never charged with any additional crimes.