On April 6, 1980, Laura Pippin Danka, a 26-year-old mother of two, vanished from a parking lot in Corpus Christi, Texas.
In 2024, Dateline featured Laura’s story in our Cold Case Spotlight series. At that time, John Pippin Jr. told Dateline about the dayhis sisterdisappeared. “It was Easter Sunday, and she went by and picked up some work that she was going to do that afternoon at home, and then she was supposed to run by and pick up the kids,” he said. “But she had stopped off at the store.” That’s when Laura went missing.
John, who lived in another state, told Dateline he remembers hearing Laura was missing. “We kept praying that, you know, she’d be found and everything,” he said.
Three days later, she was found. Laura’s body was located about 11miles from the store’sparking lot. In 2024, the Nueces County Sheriff’s Office told Dateline Laura’sdeath was ruled a homicide and that she had been stabbed nine times…