New investigation launched in Cooke disappearance 06:05 PM CST on Thursday, January 22, 2004 By Quita Culpepper KVUE News Williamson County officials are launching a new effort to investigate the disappearance of a Georgetown woman. Rachel Cooke, 19, vanished while jogging near her parents' home two years ago. Now the new Williamson County sheriff, Jim Wilson, is appointing a task force in hopes of gaining new clues. ...snip Sheriff Wilson says the task force will be made of members of local, state and federal agencies -- all with experience in cracking cold cases. ...snip That could also mean launching another large scale search. There's a $50,000 reward for information leading to Rachel's recovery. If you know anything about this case, call (800) 253-7867 or 253-STOP. KVUE's Quita Culpepper reports (Video - requires registration.) http://www.kvue.com/news/top/stories/012204kvueCooketask-eh.3e82335d.html
Finally! You have all worked hard to get to this day, may you find comfort in knowing that you have done all that you can - and then some. Great to see what Tricia is doing in her downtime from here and JR is always on hand to provide us back home the most prompt photos! Thank you both for being there with RC and Janet - wish we all could have been. RR
RC and Janet, Trica, JR...... So very excited to hear about all of the new action on Rachel's case.....Hoping and Praying that all of your efforts and the efforts of the reivestigation in Texas will bring some results in this long awaited case....It is about time some real action was being initiated! Congrats to all of you who are closely invoved and taking action! Voyager
RC, Do you think this new task force will have better search powers? That is, will they be able to go over properties that were formerly off-limits because owners would not give their consent?
Yes, of course. They will want to go by the book, in case they are ever able to bring to trial the person responsible. But once in awhile, I can't help wishing they could do things like they did 100 years ago, before Miranda and the ACLU and all the things that allow criminals to have more rights than their victims. Can you tell I'm really really upset about the Carlie Brucia murder?
