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Thomas Clancy Sr.
Status: HOMICIDE
City: Dallas
State: Texas
County: Dallas
Date of birth: April 16, 1923
Date of death: November 12, 1983
Age: 60
Gender: Male
Race: Caucasian/White
Cause of death: Gun Firearm
Anniversary month: November
LEA: Dallas Police Department
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April 8, 2024 | By: Thomas Herrold This story is part of a collaborative project between Project: Cold Case and the University of North Florida’s Applied Journalism class. One of Barbara Clancy’s favorite memories of her father is the time he took her and her siblings on a trip to Florida. As a successful salesman, Thomas R. Clancy Sr. was occasionally awarded trips to faraway vacation spots – this time, it was flying to an upscale hotel in Miami. However, as a father of 11 children at the time, Clancy opted to forfeit his four awarded plane tickets, instead choosing to endure the lengthy drive from Syracuse, N.Y. to Florida with his family. Split between a caravan of two station wagons, they spent the vacation instead in a Daytona Beach motel right on the ocean. Barbara still clings to that memory of her father and wishes he could have visited Florida with his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, too. But he didn’t live long enough. Clancy’s body was discovered in... Read More
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