Quinlan, TX – A quartet of public officials have successfully blocked any and all information about the disappearance of an East Texas woman since February, 1991.
Others, including the Sheriff of Hunt County Randy Meeks, allege that anyone who is seeking further information is guilty of a criminal offense.
He and the deputy who is in charge of the belated investigation are clearly trying to intimidate her family and others by interfering with their First Amendment right to freely associate with others, converse, publish their remarks and conclusions, and seek redress from the government for their grievances.
Carey Mae Parker isn’t the only young woman who went missing during the tenure of Judge Dan Robertson, a Hunt County Justice of the Peace and Quinlan Municipal Judge whose reelection bid failed following a public reprimand from the State Commission on Judicial Conduct.
No one is really sure just how many women have disappeared.
The truth is, it took 9 years for public officials in Hunt County to allow a missing person’s report to be filed concerning Ms. Parker’s disappearance.
A Constable named Cullen Smith told her father, Howard Parker, that he would look into the matter. From all reports by those who remember, he did, but he never actually filed a formal report, according to public records.
What’s more, a radio journalist named George Hale who is working the story for NPR’s Commerce outlet at the state university told us, “There’s no real proof that there ever was a report.”
Smith is unavailable. He passed away long ago. Howard Parker died in 2015. Before he passed, he told his family he believed his daughter’s disappearance had a lot to do with drugs. She told her father she might turn state’s evidence in Grand Jury investigations.
When Hale finally got a chance to sit down with Smith’s Deputy Constable, Jim Davenport, he reports he was “ambushed” by the Hunt County Sheriff’s Deputy, Sgt. Jeff Haines.
The trio quickly adjourned to an interrogation room at the Sheriff’s Office adjacent to the County Jail, where Haines circular logic kept returning to one central theme.
Haines accused him of dealing with information that is sensitive, still under investigation, and suspected to have been leaked illegally.
He made an audio record of the entire lengthy conversation, except for interchanges he deemed to be too “sensitive” for publication.
Hale says he was just doing his job as a journalist on assignment, something for which he is not even “remotely interested” in making an apology.
He told his listeners in a recent podcast that he doesn’t believe there ever was a real case file. He believes that because Hunt County authorities have no record of any outcry over the woman’s disappearance until the year 2010.
You can’t fit a case file of this type of investigation “in a manila envelope,” Hale said in a recent broadcast.
That’s because the family of the missing woman had no idea they were obliged to file the report in the jurisdiction where the person lived at the time. They thought for many years that the last place she had been seen alive was in Terrell, Texas, at her place of employment, which is situated in Kauffman County.
Then they learned that after she left work at Terrell, she had been to a party at Hawk Cove, in the Waco Bay area of Lake Tawakoni, where her family has lived near Quinlan for many years in Hunt County.
There she confronted a former husband and father of her children and threw a drink in his face.
Later, a woman told her brother that she is buried in the equipment yard of a former septic tank service Cody Songer’s family owned at the time.
During the build-up to the drama that would unfold, Carey Mae Parker told her father Howard that she suspected a large hole under excavation at the location was to be her grave.
She had confided in him that she was thinking of turning state’s evidence in the Grand Jury investigation then in progress.
Authorities have resisted any attempt to excavate the area in a search for her remains.
According to numerous sworn affidavits attached to a Commission on Judicial Conduct investigation of Judge Robertson’s practices, the Parker case is very similar to many others involving young women who owed money for traffic fines and bad check collection fees.
When the cops arrested her in February, 1991, she went through a pattern of harassment very similar to that outlined in Commission Case Numbers 6621 and 7226.
When a woman involved in an arrest was taken before the judge for magistration of her case, it has been reported in numerous other cases, Robertson had been drinking. He referred to the woman as whores, made them leave with him in his vehicle, and attended their arrest and apprehension with the cooperation of Quinlan Police Officer Ronnie Faust.
A woman who made a formal complaint to the commission made detailed allegations in a telephone conversation with a Parker family member who has been seeking information about her disappearance for many years.
In the tape, she alleges the Judge had placed an order with motorcycle club members to have her killed on a contactual basis.
In these previous articles, we have made an outline of the events surrounding the disappearance: http://radiolegendary.com/2015/12/no-grave-to-hold-barbies-bones-her-soul-down/
This brief excerpt from the audio file of the conversation between a family member and the woman whose complaint led to the voters’ ouster of the Judge give a clear picture of their allegations.
