Johnson County

Around sunset on Sunday, September 22nd, six days after Cynthia was last seen, a woman walking her dog on rural property 42 miles south of Arlington noticed a foul odor.

The property was in Johnson County, just south of Alvarado, along a private dirt road about a mile west of Interstate 35, just behind the 150-acre Turkey Creek landfill.

Homes were scattered through the surrounding countryside, but the property itself was wooded, secluded, and largely hidden from passing traffic.

Near a tree-lined creek bed at the edge of the woods, the dog walker found the unclothed body of a woman.

The remains had been exposed to the September heat long enough that decomposition was advanced, and the woman was no longer recognizable.

Even so, Johnson County authorities quickly considered the possibility they had found Cynthia Gonzalez of Arlington.

They contacted the police there almost immediately.

Johnson County Sheriff's Office investigator David Cole and Texas Ranger George Turner were among the first on the scene.

Your, your district is one of many that looks different.

We did a lot of redistricting, picked up some re- some the promise of some Republican seats, and your district used to sort of be from south of Fort Worth, Johnson County, Burleson, Cleburne, and sweeping down to the western suburbs of Austin, and now it's all of Arlington and a big part of Fort Worth.

H- How has that changed the conversations you're having and the campaign you're running? I mean, what's, what's that geographic change meant to you?

Well, it, uh, I...

from texas his name is hunter hunter i wanted to tell people where where they could find you where you are in the world and exactly what you do

uh so uh my name is hunter um i'm originally from a little bitty town called godly texas it's a little bit bigger than it is now but i'm from the johnson county area of uh of texas so you can find me mostly in cleburne Uh, but, uh, yeah, I've been, uh, I've been doing welding for about seven years.

I did open up my own fencing business, uh, about, uh, uh, five and a half years ago.

And then I ended up letting that go.

So pretty impressive.

I think Johnson County and Mansfield County down south were in there somewhere.

So pretty impressive that that happened like that.

I'm still listening.

The farther you get west through Dallas, and then west of Fort Worth, and then west towards Weatherford, up towards Decatur and Red River, the rain f- has been falling a lot longer, right? So with a flood watch in place at least till tomorrow morning, conditions are favorable for flooding, and we've had flood warnings in Denton, uh, also Tarrant and parts of Dallas County here for the past few hours.

That expires at 10:30, and a new one just got issued, uh, for Johnson County.

And guys, I checked rainfall totals.

DFW is approaching two inches right now, but you get northwest of Fort Worth up to towards Denton, and Sanger, and Decatur, and that area, four to five inches.

Wow

... and also, uh, two to three in Tarrant County.

Uh, approaching, uh, three inches across parts of Collin and Johnson County.

And out west towards Rio Vista and Granbury, almost six inches of rain's fallen.

So it's not regulating it, which is surprising given that it's California.

But meanwhile, farmers in Johnson County, Texas, which that state is open for business, Johnson County, Texas, they're suing.

Is it a national crisis, a regional industrial problem? What would it take to change anybody's mind? So

I personally think at the moment, it's a bit more of like a regional problem.

Amy Ayers.

She was born on January 31st of 1978 in Johnson County, Texas, with her parents and older brother, Sean.

One of Sean's most vivid memories of his sister is holding her in a rocking chair when she was a baby.

He wanted a little sister so badly.