Last month marked five years.
Sometimes it feels like it's
been 5 days and then sometimes
it feels like it's been 500
years, but Tracy
Matheson will never forget the phone call.
She got on April 10th, 2017.
That day is forever edged.
Her daughter's boss called
because she hadn't shown up for
work. She was supposed
to be at work at one she drove
to her apartment near TCU.
The door was unlocked, so she went in.
And that's where I found her body.
On the floor of her shower.
Molly Jane Matheson was 22 years
old when she was raped, strangled,
and left in her apartment and
just three weeks before the
5th anniversary of her death.
Kimbro there was an exhale.
Reginald Kimbro pled guilty
to ****** and murdering Molly
and 36 year old Megan Ketchum
in Plano just days later,
he was sentenced to life
in prison without parole
that I can go to sleep at night
and know that I don't have to
wonder what is it going to be like?
How is it going to end?
You know, that kind of thing?
That's really good,
Matheson says. Molly and Kimbrough had
been in a relationship in her past.
I had met him one time. Yeah,
he'd been in my house. Yeah,
so even though he pled guilty,
Tracy Matheson directly addressed
her daughter's killer. It's what
I needed to do. I guess you know,
I needed him to know I'm not afraid of
you and I can look you straight enough.
Face and. You didn't win because
in her five years of loss,
Matheson dug and found truth
like wait a minute.
She could be alive had someone
done their job had someone believed
in 2019. Two years after Molly and
Megan Ketchum were found dead, W.
FAA investigates, asked Alan police
why Kimbra wasn't arrested for an
incident in 2014, three years before
Molly and Megan were murdered,
three women had accused Kimbrough of
****** and choking them, including.
The woman in Allen it took nearly three
years for her rape kit to be submitted,
processed and returned to Allen PD.
But when it was,
it confirmed kimbro's DNA on the victim.
Kimbro was still not arrested.
Molly was killed 41 days later,
those two women.
May have been saved.
That's what former Alan Petty victim
advocate Nicole Fraser had to say
during the 2019 investigation.
The department declined to
comment and then I learned that
that is an altogether unusual.
I can't sit here and be quiet.
I can't sit here and do nothing.
She started project beloved to educate
and advocate for sexual assault survivors
navigating what she calls a broken system.
The group makes bundles for survivors
who have to get a forensic exam.
They have created dozens of these.
Soft interview rooms and law enforcement
offices around the country hopefully
provides the slightest bit of
comfort when someone is asked
to come in and tell their story,
and they've created a scholarship in
Molly's name for student studying social
work at the University of Arkansas.
We've awarded 6 scholarships in the amount
of $2200 each in honor of her 22 years.
Every now and then she hears from
a survivor who's received a bundle.
It's kind of a a wink.
Maybe a wink from Molly that you
know we're on the right track,
that the work we're doing is mattering.
They've missed her over the past five years,
but there's evidence of
her impact all around.
It's my husband's favorite photograph.
He often will sit and have
his morning coffee with Molly.
We talk about her a lot.
We bring up her name a lot.
We try to just weave her in.
As we can now that the chapter
of wondering if there will be
accountability for her loss is closed.
Tracy Matheson has room for what's next.
It's almost like this other
chapter has been opened.
The fight to end stories like these.
Now it's time to get down to work in
a really serious way in Fort Worth.
I'm Morgan young.