Lost in the Desert Part 1: Marjorie Knox&Melissa Alaniz - a podcast by gone cold podcast

Almost immediately after rapist and pedophile David Leonard Wood left prison in Huntsville, Texas and paroled to his mother’s house in El Paso, teenaged girls and young women began disappearing. Though the bodies of six of the females were eventually found, and Wood convicted of killing them, three remain missing to this day. This episode of gone cold is the story of the Desert Killer’s known victims and two that are potentially are as well: Marjorie Knox and Melissa Alaniz.

If you have any information about the disappearances of Marjorie Alice Knox, please contact the Dona Ana County, New Mexico Sheriff’s Office at 575-526-0795.

If you have any information about the disappearance of Melissa Alaniz, please contact the El Paso Police at 915-832-4445.

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The El Paso Times, The Austin Statesman, and court appeal documents were used as sources for this episode.

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