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E260: Aileen Conway
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On a quiet spring morning in 1986, a farmer in Lawton, Oklahoma, noticed a column of smoke rising from a desolate stretch of road. What he found would haunt the town for decades—a car, consumed by flames, welded into the guardrail of a deserted bridge. Inside was the body of 50-year-old Aileen Conway, a devoted wife and mother of seven. At first, authorities believed it was a tragic accident, but unsettling details soon cast doubt.
Why was Aileen driving down that isolated road—a place she was never known to visit? Why was her home left in an eerily disrupted state, with the back door open, the iron still hot, and a full bathtub abandoned? And most chilling of all—was the fire an unfortunate result of the crash, or had someone ensured there would be nothing left to investigate? Join us as we unravel the strange and unsettling case of Aileen Conway—was it a terrible accident, or was someone trying to cover their tracks?
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Mysterious Incident in Lawton
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On a quiet country road in Lawton, Oklahoma in the spring of 1986, a farmer stumbled upon a scene that would haunt the community for decades. A car engulfed in flames was embedded in the guardrail of a deserted bridge.
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The heat was so intense that the metal of the car had melted into the structure itself. Inside, a body was trapped, burned beyond recognition. At first glance, it appeared to be a tragic accident, a single car crash with a devastating outcome.
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But as investigators began to piece together the events of the day, a darker, more sinister story began to emerge. The victim was a 50-year-old wife and mother of seven. She was a woman who learned to lead an ordinary life dedicated to her family and her church.
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Her sudden and violent death shattered the peace of her community and left her loved ones grappling with unanswered questions.
Exploring Theories: Accident or Foul Play?
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Was this truly a horrific accident? a case of wrong place wrong time or did the victim suffer from something far more sinister today we'll delve into the unsolved case of this victim a case that remains shrouded in mystery more than three decades later we'll examine the evidence and explore the conflicting theories we'll ask crucial questions was this a tragic accident or was she a victim of foul play this is the story of eileen conway
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Thank you.
Meet the Hosts of 'Coffee and Cases'
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Welcome to Coffee and Cases, where we like our coffee hot and our cases cold. My name is Allison Williams. And my name is Maggie Dameron. We will be telling stories each week in the hopes that someone out there with any information concerning the cases will take those tips to law enforcement.
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So justice and closure can be brought to these families. With each case, we encourage you to continue in the conversation on our Facebook page, Coffee in Cases podcast, because as we all know, conversation helps to keep the missing person in the public consciousness, helping keep their memories alive.
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So sit back, sip your coffee and listen to what's brewing this week. Kate, took me a second to get gather my bearings. It's been a long week. been a long month yeah we're 26 weeks pregnant it's book fair this week with kindergarten and preschool babies and next week's read across america so we're busy i am excited to be reading books At yeah several of our elementary schools. Yeah.
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Allison gets to be a guest at my school. Yes. Are you going to other schools too? I am. I'm going to three total schools.
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Popular. You're going to be popular.
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I'm everywhere. you know i'm just excited. I think the kids will be excited about all of it.
Suspicious Circumstances Unfold
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Too bad, though, one of the dress-up days falls on our spring picture day, so that's going to be fun. Oh, that'd be great. That's a great idea.
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Why don't we do that every year? Just make it some sort of costume day. Yeah, it's fine. Like the hundredth day of school. Would that not be the cutest? I think that would be cute. For those of you who are not in education, the hundredth day of school is when kids dress up in some of the cutest. I love when they look legit like 80 year old men and women. Yeah. yeah It's the cutest.
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Yeah, they go full out, some of them canes, hair. Oh, yeah. In fact, I might post on social media with this episode of what my little sleuth hound looked like on one of her elementary. She's a sophomore in high school now. Oh, she'll love that.
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I know. Yeah, she'll be like, take it down. so embarrassing yeah um one of my kids did ask me today or yesterday we were guessing what year um i was born in and their para was born in and um they guess i was born in 1717 i older than america um
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i am older than america
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I was like, you got it, friend. Oh, my God. You're so smart. Okay. Okay. We digress. Back to the episode. Now that we've gotten our happiness out of the way, yeah let's focus on tragedy.
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Yeah. Let's move on to the tragedy. So, it was just a typical morning in the r word that I can't say. Rural. Yep. Oklahoma. Yeah. when a farmer who was working out in his fields noticed this plume ah of smoke rising in the distance. So it seemed to be coming from this stretch of a somewhat deserted road that was like near a bridge.
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So he was like, is the field on fire? What's happening? So he called the authorities and about 20 minutes later, most sources say the Oklahoma highway patrol arrived at the scene.
Pat Conway's Discoveries
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And that's when they found Like the site that was described in the intro. Oh, the car. Which, again, mean, the more rural you are, it does take a while for emergency services to get to you.
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Yes. Yeah. So what they found was this car engulfed in flames and it was like embedded into the guardrail. Like someone had ran into this guardrail. At high speed. At high speed, yes. Okay.
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the car was like... melting in on itself and listen i googled this but this seems a little like sure google are you sure are the little ai response that you get because it said that melting the metal on a car like that's typically still would be like 2000 plus degrees fahrenheit oh and i feel like that's a lot feel like that's is that is that even possible It says a typical car fire can reach temperatures exceeding 1500 degrees Fahrenheit with the hottest areas within the engine compartment potentially reaching closer to 2000 degrees. You stop it right now.
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I didn't even know that was possible on earth to get that hot. so You're like 2000 degrees. I feel like you would just melt being close by that.
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Yeah. Well, I mean, I guess that's why My husband is a hero. That's true. That is true. Lieutenant Larry Sully of this patrol department was one of the very first responders and he described the scene as horrific. So he said when the responders arrived, they could tell that there was a body in the car, but they couldn't get to it because of this raging fire. It was just like a futile exercise.
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And so because they couldn't get to it right away, by the time they were able to get to the body, it was just beyond right recognition.
Investigating Unusual Signs
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yeah And I think that's one of those things where, gosh, you hate to admit that this is reality, but it's kind of like if you have some sort of devastating scene of war you you know and you you we've read stories about it where there will be certain patients who are taken into an emergency room and some who the doctors know they're not going to be able to save they don't even try oh you know they're just kind of put to the side have you seen pearl harbor before
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I have not seen that movie. Oh my God. First off, you need to watch it. Okay. Second off, or secondly, however, whatever we want to say, there is a scene that is just like that, that like after the bombings in Pearl Harbor and you know, it's like mass chaos.
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One of the doctors just tells the nurses to start using their lipstick and to mark people they can't save with an X. Yeah. Yeah. And so it's, that's what this made me think of because I thought, you know, when you get there, obviously the fire department is going to do everything they can to put this fire out.
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But if they already, know I mean, if you're at 2000 degrees and someone's trapped inside, the likelihood that you're going to put, be able to put out the fire and save them is meager at best.
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And I think we always talk about like PTSD in terms of military, but oh a lot of people don't think about like police officers, firefighters, first responders. They have to deal with that too. Oh yeah.
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I mean, I, I would argue, i have argued that I think that both police and fire should pretty much get automatic psych disability because even if it's Even if it's not the same with like loud noises, we drive by ah spot and Rodney will be like, right there was one of the worst car accidents we ever worked.
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And, you know, and like. And you know he sees that. Exactly. Oh, yeah. Let's see. Unsung heroes. Yeah. Yeah. The skid marks on the road told the story that this car was traveling at a very high speed, and they estimated it was between 50 to 60 miles an hour before impact.
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So at first, it seemed just like a tragic and senseless accident. So they just began like this routine investigation. They're not really thinking it's... a homicide or anything like that.
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Yeah, because I mean, I guess if there are skid marks, that tells me that the the brakes were applied. Mm-hmm. So maybe something malfunctioned and... Right.
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You know, they're slamming on the brakes. Because that too like where people can't stop their car whatever. Mm-hmm. So because the body was burnt beyond recognition, they couldn't, and they didn't find any identification on this person. And even if this person had yeah. yeah They used the computer systems to check the tags because they were able to pull the license plate number.
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And they found out that the car belonged to a Pat Conway, who was lived just about 15 miles from this crash site. So then through that, they were able to identify that the person inside was Eileen, who was Pat's wife of 33 years. Oh, gosh.
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So authorities reported Eileen's death as an accident, a single vehicle fatality. But back at the Conway home... They felt that a very different story was unfolding. Oh.
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Well, there has to be something if they're hearing a car accident and they don't think that it was just... Some tragic... Right. You know. and Pat begins thinking this way because when he gets home after receiving the news of his wife's death, when he walked through the door, he was met with a series of unsettling discoveries that are just... And it's not like, you know, blood splatter on the wall, couch overturn, just like small things. But to someone you've known for 33 years, you're going to be like, this is weird.
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Okay. Yeah. So first he noticed, well, first he noticed that the patio door was wide open. Something that had Eileen intended to leave, she wouldn't have left that patio door open. She would have closed the patio door. Oh, the same way a normal person if they leaving in their house. Isn't going to leave the front door wide open. Right.
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Unless you're my spouse and you have done that once in your life, but it's fine. It's fine. Yeah. Second was that Eileen's purse, which she always carried with her, was just sitting by an armchair. And her driver's license and glasses were still inside. So if she's going somewhere, and she probably would need those things. Especially her license because she was driving a car.
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You know, I'm so anal about my driver's license. I... would take it even if Rodney is driving because I'm like, what happens if something incapacitates him and i have to drive?
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I need my license. Yeah, my dad taught me from like a very early age when I first got my permit. He was like, you never leave your house without your driver's license because you never know when you may have to be the driver.
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Right. So, okay. These are little things, but I can see why. He's saying, okay, this is odd. Okay, this is more odd. And there's some more weird things, too. So the ironing board was set up and the iron had been left on. Now, if Eileen is like any woman that I know, if you use your iron, your straightener, your curling iron, anything along those lines, you're going to check that sucker at least three times to make sure it's unplugged before you leave your house.
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like oh You're just going to do that. Yeah,
Deeper Investigation and Theories
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I'll turn it off and then I get to the door of the bathroom and then I check back just to make sure I don't see any lights yep still on on it.
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And then i might make it to the kitchen and be like, did I really look? Yeah. And then I'll go check again. Yeah. I will tell myself, like, say out loud, Maggie, you're unplugging your straightener.
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then, like, Anthony and I are going somewhere together. I'm like, I unplugged my straightener just so you know when we're 10 miles down the road. Like, you can remind me.
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So, apart from those weird things, the water hose from their garden was still running into their swimming pool because it's spring. So, they're getting ready to open their pool. Oh, no. You're not going to do that either because it will overflow.
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and Along those same lines, their master bathroom, the bathtub was full of water. Like she was about to take a bath or maybe had just gotten out of the bath. And maybe that's why the ironing board is on.
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And their phone was off the hook. Because remember, this is back when we had landlines. Okay. Yeah, I get why he's saying no. Like she may have left, but like she left in a hurry. Now, i'll I'll say this. I'll play devil's advocate here.
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She could have just ah gotten out of the bath. She hadn't let the water out. She was like, you know what? I'm going to go ahead and plug the iron in so it can get hot. And then she's coming into the bathroom or whatever, or into the master bedroom to go into the bathroom to let the water out.
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Somebody calls and they say, there's an emergency you've got to leave right now and if I'm so devastated maybe the phone falls out of my hand so it's off the hook I don't drain the water i don't think about unplugging the iron i run out the patio door don't even think about closing it behind me I'm not thinking I need to grab my license because there's an emergency I need to get to and I jump in my car I mean, and along that same line, if she's running from someone.
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yeah know Maybe she's trying to call 911. Yeah, you're not going to be like, oh, wait, got to get my license. Hold up, sir, madam. Quit chasing me. Let me unplug my iron. Yeah. So, yeah, there are a couple of scenarios, I think, that you could come up with where you could say, okay, these could be explained away.
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But these strange details, so I feel like while we naturally just try to explain things away because we don't want to be in danger or you know, want something bad to happen, those details sent chills down Pat's spine. So he is like, this is no ordinary accident. Something is terribly wrong.
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And according to Unsolved Mysteries, quote, another disturbing detail nagged at Pat saying, what was Eileen doing out on that lonely country road? Because remember, um it was basically deserted. And he said that neither of them had been to that area. So she would really have no reason to be there, period, let alone by herself.
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So he's just saying really nothing about her death made sense. So he can't even think, so he's not even trying to say, okay, somebody else had to have been with her when she left.
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Because, again, he's saying, i don't even know why she would even be there. Mm-hmm. Yeah. So he's like, um don't even, I almost got the impression from the research that he, like, how did she get there? Would she even know how to get to this place? do you know what i mean? Mm-hmm.
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So he ends up contacting Ray Anderson of the district attorney's office. And Ray's first impression of the case was that Pat was just, you know, like a grieving spouse. He didn't want to come to terms with the fact that his wife had died in this horrible accident.
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And so he just kind of like... takes it in what pat is saying at first just almost out of pity but then when he really started looking at all the things all the circumstances you know the way she left home all that stuff it led him to believe that foul play could have been involved okay so now it's not just the husband it's actually the district attorney who's saying okay you could have a legitimate claim here Yeah. So someone from the district attorney's office is like, okay, maybe we need to like delve deeper into this case.
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Okay. And as they do, more and more evidence emerged that would challenge this initial assumption of her death being an accident. So one of the more perplexing clues was that a church bulletin was found in the grass near the scene, but it was like,
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I want to say on the way to the scene. It was a distance from the bridge, but not, you know, 70 miles down the road or whatever. But Pat recognized this as one that had been on the dashboard of Eileen's car because it was the church that she had attended.
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But um Eileen always drove with the windows rolled up and the air conditioning on, much like myself. I do not like my hair to be blown in the wind. Same. hate I know. it ah It's like whipping around everywhere. yeah And I'm like, just give me the nice cool air conditioning. Yep.
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Yep. Just not a fan. But windows rolled down is really the only explanation for this church bulletin being right out the window.
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Unless... Like, it blows out, like, when the car stopped and, like, someone's getting out and the wind, you know, blows it out. out Yeah.
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That is true.
Arson Suspicions and Evidence
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But then, if somebody got out before the bridge, why'd the accident happen at the bridge? And then, ah feel like, really, either scenario...
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would suggest that someone else is with her because one, she died in the car. So if someone did get out, it wasn't her. then two, if they're driving with the windows down, that's not going to be her either.
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So I'm just curious who it was and right why. yeah So Pat supports this theory of...
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it being foul play related. He believed in this was his scenario, that whoever was with her at a had opened the door, set the accelerator and slammed it into drive.
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So that's why I'm wondering, like when we say that it's on the scene, but not as close to, not close to the bridge, like how far was it from the bridge? Would it have been enough distance away for that car to move that Like, to gain that much speed to make that impact to set the fire ablaze.
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Do you know what I'm trying to say? Does that make sense?
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Well, I'm thinking, could somebody... i wish I could see a picture of the car, too. Because I guess it is also possible if someone were in the car with her
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and... this is how Like, let's say they're in the passenger seat and they have a weapon or some sort of other way to threaten Eileen. And they're making her, you know, step on the gas.
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Is it possible that they could... Like, open the passenger door and jump out of the car right before impact? Well, that that's what I don't understand.
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I guess because i don't understand. i put the picture in the show notes. It's not the best picture, but that's really the only one.
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it's hard to see and you know, the doors are open or... But I guess, like, I don't know a lot about this type thing, but is it possible to
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some way make a car go, like, without somebody pushing the accelerator?
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Because from... From what all this says, she was in the driver's seat. So, like, did they tape her foot down to the gas pedal and then just get out of the car and reach over and put it into drive? Like, I don't understand how that would happen.
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i don't either. Because that Pat thought that... whoever did it was trying to run her and the car off into the creek so that it would just look like, oh, she went over this bridge, which I think would be more likely to be settled as an accident than this car engulfed in flames.
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Right. And again, with the skid marks, we also know that brakes were applied, so there's an attempt to stop. so I just don't. I know. It's very confusing. Yeah.
00:22:46
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But the police department ended up switching, or the district attorney's office rather, the cause of her death from unexplained, or too unexplained from accidental. Okay.
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So even there. Leaving the door open. Yeah. There was also some other weird things like the gas cap was missing. And it took me for a second because I was like, at first I was picturing the door, you know, closes on your Oh, right. Instead of the twisty part. Yeah.
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Yeah. so because of that matter, investigators began to suspect arson. sonny sansam of the oklahoma state fire marshal's office was called in to examine the evidence the da then called in the oklahoma state bureau of investigations and the state fire marshal to assess the possibilities of arson And after reviewing crime scene photos, they immediately, of course, noticed there's extensive fire damage because this car is basically destroyed. They thought that the burn pattern strongly suggested the use of gasoline.
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So they're saying that with this missing gas cap is usually a common indicator of arson as it removes... Like, a things that put in place to stop ah flames from spreading in this type of scenario. Plus, I mean, if there is some sort of accelerant, that would boost that temperature of the car even more in terms of the fire.
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Because they discovered, so along those lines, that the interior of this car that she was driving would not burned as intensely as it did without the accelerants like gasoline. Okay. So they even like tested on similar car materials and the fire marshal, the Sansom, demonstrated how the dashboard and upholstery when exposed to a blowtorch would self-extinguish due to the flame retardant treatment. So I feel like if a blowtorch can't catch it on fire, right like something is going to have to aid this fire in spreading.
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So that's why they believe that this pattern that they see soaked into some existing material was gasoline and it was just completely consumed by fire.
Discussion and Unanswered Questions
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Could the accident have happened?
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Could she have wrecked and then been set on fire? yes. That's kind of what I think because, but like are they trying to get rid of her body? Yeah, that's what I'm wondering. if if If the whole plan was for her to, say, go into the water and that doesn't happen in the accident, could they then have But then, um okay, here's my devil's app advocate again. We're rural Oklahoma.
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Right. You're not going to have gasoline in the trunk as a backup just in case this one other method doesn't work. Oh, hadn't even thought about that. Like, you would have to plan ahead. yeah because you're out in the middle of nowhere.
00:25:58
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So I, I mean, unless it's like, oh crap, this initial plan didn't work. Good thing nobody ever travels on this road. Let me run real quick to the double quick down the road and get me some gasoline.
00:26:09
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But then they would have to have another car there. Right. Yeah. So I just, I don't know. Okay, keep going.
00:26:20
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Well, I mean, I feel like that's really it, right? Who killed her and why would they kill her? They've just, they've explored several possible motives, but all of these theories and motives each come with its own set of challenges and these unanswered questions. So I think that's kind of the problem with Eileen's case is there's just a lot of unknown, which I guess if you're the person that killed her is good because...
00:26:49
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ah Right. It's going to be hard to find you. Yeah. Because yeah there's just so much unknown. So one of the most prominent theories centers around the idea of burglary.
00:27:00
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So if this is, if something happened and there's a burglary happening, she's in the bath, she runs out, and this was, you know, her basically coming upon people who are in the midst of burglaring her home.
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Burglarizing
00:27:20
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ah My immediate reaction, of course, I've never been a burglar, but we'll run. Right. Or if you are more, if you have more violent tendencies, yeah think would be to knock her out or something like that. It wouldn't be let's.
00:27:40
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I'm going to murder her, her on fire. um Or get her in the car with us. Yeah, because we've talked about, like, that's a pretty big jump to go from burglary to yeah arson and murder.
00:27:55
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Right.
00:27:57
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And her purse is left in the house. Well, I did read somewhere that there was, like, some missing jewelry that Pat couldn't find. So maybe it's possible, and they just panicked, and maybe they did.
00:28:13
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Well, I mean, I feel like if they hit her on the head, then there would have been... yeah blood. don't know. I don't know either. Another theory, though, less likely given other evidence, suggests that maybe she had suffered from a sudden medical emergency, like some type of brain ailment, or she had some type of mental snap that caused her just to leave home in this disoriented state, and that's what
Impact on Family and Call for Justice
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led to the car crash. So it would have been...
00:28:41
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an accident but there was no medical evidence to support this theory that she had some type of lapse of some sort okay so let me say this i'm not going to go into the theory of a lapse however rodney's mother And my aunt as well.
00:29:06
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um But my Rodney's mother suffered from a brain aneurysm. and One of my worst fears. Mine too. Mine too. But she had but like, I guess, I don't know when it's traveling to her brain or whatever.
00:29:22
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She had one of the worst headaches she'd ever had. And she looked at Rodney's stepdad and said... you need to take me to the hospital right now.
00:29:33
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It was almost like she knew. and by the time they made it to the hospital and they gave her forms to fill out, she started to be unable to like read, sign her name, communicate.
00:29:50
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And so i it is possible, I guess is what I'm saying, that maybe something like that happens. And she does feel this urgency and get to the yeah to go to a hospital.
00:30:06
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And it could be the case that she was disoriented. That could be why, you know, she's in a rush. But also why maybe she's going down a road that she's never been down before.
00:30:19
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And why she would have been traveling at a high rate of speed. 50 miles an hour to slam into the bridge. Right. Because she's just disoriented. Right.
00:30:29
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so i'm saying it is possible right some people have talked about another theory that i don't really think is a thing but some people said that pat could have been involved in her death but he had like a pretty airtight alibi and so there was no evidence that they were unhappy so that theory is a no yeah i agree Despite these theories, the frustrating reality is that there's no concrete suspects in her case at all.
00:30:59
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So investigators have followed lots of leads. They've interviewed lots of people. They've analyzed every piece of evidence. But the identity of ah perpetrator or perpetrators has remained elusive.
00:31:10
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And so now we're all these years past Eileen's death and we still have all of these unanswered questions. like Like we've talked about this remote country road. Why are we there? Who did this?
00:31:22
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Was it some type of accident? Was it foul play and why? So all these questions have haunted her family. And Pat had promised that he would never give up hope finding answers. So he actually spent the rest of his life seeking justice for his wife because he was unshakable in the belief that she was murdered.
00:31:45
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But he ended up passing away before he got answers in 2013 at the age of So he never figured out what happened. And then in 2018, Fred, that one of their son, passed away at the age of 56. So it's taken toll on their family.
00:32:04
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Despite the years that have passed, this case remains open. They are still offering a reward that the family started for information leading to a conviction and then in the case. Investigators and the Conway family hold on to hope that someone somewhere has the missing piece of this puzzle so that they can finally bring closure to this tragic story.
00:32:25
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So I guess with this one, I'm torn. I'll be honest. Because I feel like something
00:32:37
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like an aneurysm, a brain aneurysm, could explain a lot of problems
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details that her husband found significant in terms of indicating foul play. oh The one thing, though, that I guess is telling me that it could still be foul play is the arson investigators who are saying it it seems likely that there was some sort of an accelerant or...
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So this is arson. Obviously, you you're not going to have the brain aneurysm and have an accident and set fire to your own vehicle. So right I could see this one both ways.
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The circumstances surrounding Eileen Conway's death remain unresolved. A burned car, a disrupted home, and numerous unanswered questions persist. Was it a tragic accident or an abrupt end of her life?
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Was it a deliberate act of violence that has gone unpunished for years? The Conway family spent years searching for answers. Their sorrow deepened by a lack of resolution. Although Pat has passed, his determination to find the truth remains with those who remember Eileen.
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The absence created by her death serves as a reminder of the pain caused by unsolved crimes. If you have any information, no matter how small the family and us, we are asking that you contact the local police department 580-581-3270.
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five eight one three two seven zero Any detail, any recollection could be the key to solving this longstanding mystery. Eileen's story reminds us that even in peaceful communities, crime can happen. It's a story of a life that ended too soon.
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A family's search for justice and a mystery that remains in Oklahoma. And we may never fully understand what happened on that backcountry road in 1986. But what we can do is remember Eileen Conway by continuing to seek the truth.
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