Episode 064 - The Disappearance of Rachel Cooke

Nineteen year old Rachel Cooke returned home to Georgetown, Texas to spend the 2001 holiday season with her family.  Rachel decided to stay a little longer to attend a relatives wedding but everything changed on January 10th, 2002.

Rachel went out for her morning run but never returned.  Over the course of the past 19 years, investigators have worked the case in hopes of finding Rachel and or those who were responsible for her disappearance.  

CASE UPDATE

In 2019 however, there was an apparent break in the case.  A vehicle was delivered to detectives working for the Georgetown and Williamson County investigators working her case.  In the days after Rachel’s disappearance, detectives announced they were seeking a white Trans-Am in connection to the crime.  The car delivered to police was a white trans am out of Dallas and it is currently being swept for DNA or evidence connected to Rachel’s disappearance.

In addition to the receipt of the car, authorities released two new sketches of persons of interest in the nineteen year old’s disappearance.  Police released the sketches and informed the public that a $100,000 reward is available for information regarding Rachel’s disappearance.

Jessica Cox, a detective with Williamson County told the media:  “Several months ago, the cold case unit along with our partners with the FBI and our forensic artist Natalie Murray began to recreate the original drawings that were done.  So she shat down, re-interviewed the original witnesses and she was able to come up with a new digital sketch of the suspects.”

There has been no news recently regarding the case since 2019, and what, if any evidence investigators have gathered from the vehicle remain unknown.