A CHRISTMAS REMAINS UNSOLVED MYSTERY
LATRICIA WHITE’S MURDER AND THE DISAPPEARANCE OF LEE AND CHANCE WACKERHAGEN
The victims and the missing
This tragedy occurred over the Christmas period in Texas twenty-seven years ago.
Chance Wackerhagen (nine years old at the time) lived in Kingsville, Texas with his mother Gaye Williams. Chance’s father, Lee “Dub” Wackerhagen separated from Chance’s mother and resided in Lockhart, Texas with Latricia White — a local nurse and a recently divorced mother of two.
Over the Christmas period of that year — Chance would stay with Latricia and his father Dub — leaving his mother on 17 December 1993 and later calling his mother on 25 December 1993 asking to extend his stay with his father. This phone call would be the last time Gaye spoke to Chance.
Chance and Lee were last seen on 26 December 1993. Latricia was found shot six times to the head on 27 December 1993.
On 27 December 1993, Latricia was dead in her home and Lee “Dub” Wackerhagen vanished, seemingly into thin air, along with his son Chance Wackerhagen. Chance would be thirty-six years old today (nine at the time of his vanishing) and it seems we are heading towards yet another Christmas without knowing the truth.
