The Tragedy Behind the Texas Crime Victims’ Bill of Rights

The murder of Cydney Myers leads a mother into a new life as an activist in the 1980s.

Credit: Find a Grave

On Tuesday, June 26, 1979, Cydney Marquette Myers, 20, missed work at Texas Aeronautics Commissions in Austin, Texas. It was uncharacteristic of the secretary, so her supervisor phoned her father, Fred Myers. Fred, a civilian police dispatcher, hadn’t heard from Cydney and knew…