Santa Fe

Only one teenager received a minor injury, and the man was deemed unfit for trial and went to a mental institution.

And in 2025, during a Halloween parade in Santa Fe, Texas, police were notified by at least three different homes that sewing pins were discovered in chocolate bars that were thrown to the crowd.

No one was arrested.

What is with Texas stealing names from other better towns? Yeah.

Santa Fe, Texas.

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original.

Mark was twenty-one in the spring of nineteen eighty-nine, a pre-med student at the University of Texas at Austin with a genuine shot at becoming a doctor.

He'd grown up in Santa Fe, Texas, a town on the highway between Houston and Galveston.

He was the older of two sons born to James Kilroy, a chemical engineer, and his wife, Helen.

He'd played basketball at Santa Fe High, finished near the top of his class, and struck nearly everyone as someone who was going places.

That March, Mark and three friends he'd grown up with, Bradley Moore, Bill Huddleston, and Brent Martin, loaded up for the trip every Texas student seemed to be making that week.

They drove down to South Padre Island on Friday, March tenth, checked into a hotel, and joined a crowd of spring breakers that swelled into the tens of thousands.

Mark was 21 in the spring of 1989, a pre-med student at the University of Texas at Austin with a genuine shot at becoming a doctor.

He'd grown up in Santa Fe, Texas, a town on the highway between Houston and Galveston.

He was the older of two sons born to James Kilroy, a chemical engineer, and his wife, Helen.

He'd played basketball at Santa Fe High, finished near the top of his class, and struck nearly everyone as someone who was going places.

That March, Mark and three friends he'd grown up with, Bradley Moore, Bill Huddleston, and Brent Martin, loaded up for the trip every Texas student seemed to be making that week.

They drove down to South Padre Island on Friday, March 10th, checked into a hotel, and joined a crowd of spring breakers that swelled into the tens of thousands.

So Othram recommended obtaining a sample from the other son, Steven.

On August twenty-third, Investigator Holt and Texas Ranger Perkins traveled to Santa Fe, Texas, to knock on the door of Steven Mosley.

He wasn't home, but after they tracked him down, he was willing to give a DNA sample, and it was submitted to Othram that same day.

While they were waiting for results, Investigator Holt received a call from Steven's wife, April.

I think let's just dive right into the story.

So our story starts in Santa Fe, Texas, which is a small town on Highway 6, strung along the road between Houston and Galveston.

It's a place of Friday night lights and church potlucks and high school gyms that smell like floor wax and popcorn.

It was, by the account of a reporter who went there in 1989, a middle-class town with middle-class values and a serious devotion to high school sports.

So if you have looked at the episode title, you know Mark is the center of our discussion today.

So Mark was born in Chicago on March 5th, 1968, and his family moved to Texas when he was young.

In Santa Fe, he grew into a tall, blonde, athletic kid who played basketball and baseball.

He did well in school, and he formed lifelong friendships with his basketball teammates, named Bill Huddleston, Bradley Moore, and Brent Martin.

Allie Rae, amazing performer.

She's in Santa Fe, Texas.

You ever been to Santa Fe, Texas, Chloe?

I've never been to Texas, period.

Oh,

I know.

You need to go on to my parents about that.

Well, I've been many times, not to Santa Fe, but I've been to like Conroe and Houston and that.

here.

You know, we also look at the Aspen Miller, who is just down the road in Santa Fe, Texas.

And she comes every year.

So that breakaway roping that we have, we may not be in the middle of Cowtown, but we are definitely in the middle of, you know, Fort Bend County, where it's the heart and beat of attracting.