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The Disappearance of Elisa Roberson Part 4: Debacle from 2023-12-11T04:18:58
In 2016, Elisa Roberson’s case saw the most activity it had since 1989. First, Texas Equusearch came to Aransas Pass to search property once owned by original detectives’ prime suspect. But nothing...
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The Disappearance of Elisa Roberson Part 3: Fallibilities from 2023-12-07T02:56:25
When 13-year-old Elisa Roberson went missing in August of 1989, an incorrect detail was assigned to the narrative, and it continued to be reported for decades: the time in which Elisa’s disappearan...
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Listen Now - Dr. Death: Bad Magic from 2023-12-04T11:00:03
From Wondery and hosted by Laura Beil - The new season of Dr. Death, BAD MAGIC is a story of miraculous cures, magic and murder.
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The Disappearance of Elisa Roberson Part 2: Lost Time from 2023-11-27T03:20:06
Aransas Pass Police Lt. Linda Thompson was making up for lost time on the morning of August 7th, 1989. The evening before, 13-year-old Elisa Roberson vanished, but the Lt., and the department’s Chi...
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The Disappearance of Elisa Roberson Part 1: Halfway from 2023-11-20T03:47:26
On the late afternoon of August 6th, 1989, 13-year-old Blanca Elisa Roberson, known to most by her middle name, left her home in Aransas Pass and headed to meet a friend halfway between their house...
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The Mysterious Kidnapping of Catherine Thom from 2023-11-13T02:00:02
In the Fall of 1988, everything was headed in the right direction for 31-year-old Cathy Thom. After a childhood and then young adulthood that kept her on the move constantly, she was finally settli...
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Haunted: The Murder of Sylvia Salinas from 2023-10-31T11:00:03
On Halloween, 1989, 30-year-old Sylvia Salinas, owner of Salinas Food Store in Galveston, Texas, stayed behind to stock the shelves while her folks returned home for lunch. At 1:23 PM, police were ...
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The Murder of Terressa Lynn Vanegas from 2023-10-30T01:09:25
On Halloween Eve 2006, 16-year-old Terressa Lynn Vanegas bounced around between friend’s houses. Though she was supposed to spend the night with one of them, those plans fell through unbeknownst to...
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The Mysterious Slayings of Regina Grover&David Larson from 2023-10-23T01:36:30
A few days before Christmas in 1984, 26-year-old David Dale Larson and 21-year-old Regina Suzanne Grover went out for a dinner date at The Keg Restaurant and Bar off Camp Bowie in Fort Worth, Texas...
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The Broad Daylight Murder of Valerie McPherson from 2023-10-16T02:01:10
In 2013, 24-year-old Lauren Bump was brutally killed while jogging through San Antonio’s O.P. Schnabel Park, on the city’s northwest side, generally a safe, middle-class area and during the day. Th...
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The Abduction&Murder of Raul Arevalo from 2023-10-09T02:07:09
On February 23rd, 1953, two men asked workers at the Lyles Buick Company Service Station in Sonora for help; they’d ran out of gas and were stranded just east of town, the strangers said. 17-year-o...
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The Murder of Kathleen Suckley Part 2: Eye Witness from 2022-04-18T02:18:36
The killing of 29-year-old single mother of two, Kathy Suckley, had the residents of Corpus Christi’s southside in a panic. Police felt the public pressure to solve the case. Although identifying a...
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The Murder of Kathleen Suckley Part 1: Kathy’s Story from 2022-04-11T01:00:02
Kathleen Schleicher, better known as Kathy, grew up in both a Los Angeles suburb and later, a beach town 60 miles south of California’s most popular city. She was the youngest of the four children ...
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The Troubling Disappearance of Coach Kenny Hilscher from 2022-04-03T21:54:33
After leading the Bloomington High School Bobcats to their first playoffs since he played ball there, twenty years before, Coach Kenneth Hilscher was even more valued and respected there than ever ...
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Rosa Sandoval’s Mysterious Disappearance&Murder from 2022-03-28T05:15:33
In May of 2004 12-year-old Rosa Sandoval missed the last day of elementary school and the class party that was to take place and was never seen again. San Antonio Police sprung to action fast, but ...
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The Puzzling Disappearance of Rachel Cooke Part 5: The Foreman from 2022-03-18T23:37:43
Part 5 of 5. Convicted a year and a half later of a crime that could easily be considered similar to the prevailing theory in Rachel Cooke’s disappearance, an Austin area man was no stranger to vio...
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The Puzzling Disappearance of Rachel Cooke Part 4: The Cop from 2022-03-14T03:51:49
Part 4 of 5. In 1998, policeman Jimmy Fennell, Jr quit his job in Giddings, Texas after getting new work in Georgetown. Tragically, Fennell’s fiance, Stacey Stites, had been killed in 1996 and, per...
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The Puzzling Disappearance of Rachel Cooke Part 3: The Confession from 2022-03-07T02:15:21
Part 3 of 5. Rachel Cooke’s parents believed their daughter was no longer alive, but still held out a sliver of hope that she was. In 2006, four years after her January 2002 disappearance, those ho...
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The Puzzling Disappearance of Rachel Cooke Part 2: The Promise from 2022-02-28T01:27:46
Part 2 of 5. 19-year-old Rachel Cooke’s disappearance consumed her father, Robert Cooke. While the month following saw incredible activity in the form of searches from incredibly valuable Texas-bas...
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The Puzzling Disappearance of Rachel Cooke Part 1: The Run from 2022-02-21T03:53:36
On January 10th, 2002, back home in Williamson County on winter break from college in San Diego, 19-year-old Rachel Cooke slept in a little. When she woke up, her parents and sister had all gone ab...
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Killed in Broad Daylight: Sylvia Salinas from 2022-02-14T03:05:59
On Halloween, 1989, 30-year-old Sylvia Salinas, owner of Salinas Food Store in Galveston, Texas, stayed behind to stock the shelves while her folks returned home for lunch. At 1:23 PM, police were ...
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The Abduction&Slaying of Danydia Thompson from 2022-02-07T03:02:32
When 7-year-old Danydia Betty-Jacqueline Thompson didn’t show up after school to meet her brother and sister for the walk home, both of them knew something was terribly wrong. After telling relativ...
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The Mysterious Murder of Angie Irsay&the (Un)Resolved Slaying of Jaqueline Romero from 2022-01-23T22:16:25
On this episode of gone cold, we cover two unrelated stories from the city of El Paso; both likely impacted, or were impacted by, the 1987 desert killings thought by law enforcement to be perpetrat...
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Lost in the Desert Part 2: Cheryl Lynn Vasquez-Dismukes from 2022-01-17T02:42:43
During the Summer of 1987, the disappearances of girls and young women were stacking up in El Paso. Though the police seemed to think most were simply runaways, they changed their tune when the bod...
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Lost in the Desert Part 1: Marjorie Knox&Melissa Alaniz from 2022-01-10T02:11:21
Almost immediately after rapist and pedophile David Leonard Wood left prison in Huntsville, Texas and paroled to his mother’s house in El Paso, teenaged girls and young women began disappearing. Th...
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Introducing American Scandal: The Pentagon Papers from 2021-12-20T09:00:02
American Scandal is a podcast from Wondery that explores the darker stories that have shaped the United States. From the Unabomber to Bernie Madoff, these are stories that reveal the underbelly of ...
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Cheryl Henry&Andy Atkinson: The Houston Lover’s Lane Murders Part 3 from 2021-12-19T06:32:30
Part 3 of 3. The initial investigation into the slayings of 22-year-old Cheryl Henry and 21-year-old Andy Atkinson was meticulous, with no stones left unturned, but it resulted in virtually no brea...
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Cheryl Henry&Andy Atkinson: The Houston Lover’s Lane Murders Part 2 from 2021-12-11T22:54:51
After the bodies of 22-year-old Cheryl Henry and 21-year-old Andy Atkinson were found, on August 23rd and 24th 1990 respectively, Houston Homicide Detective Billy Belk was called to the scene to be...
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Introducing The Vanished from 2021-12-06T09:00:02
Few things are more devastating than a loved one going missing. On The Vanished podcast from Wondery, host Marissa Jones tells stories of missing persons that have gone overlooked by mainstream med...
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Cheryl Henry&Andy Atkinson: The Houston Lover’s Lane Murders Part 1 from 2021-12-05T01:42:42
When 22-year-old Cheryl Henry and 21-year-old Andy Atkinson met in August of 1990, it was almost as if fate made it so. Both of them had just moved back to Houston, Texas earlier that summer. And b...
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Sherri Ann Jarvis: Identifying Walker County Jane Doe from 2021-11-23T00:22:18
On November 1st, 1980, the body of a young female was found on the side of Interstate 45 near Huntsville in Walker County, Texas. For 41 years, this girl was unidentified and known as Walker County...
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Introducing The Shrink Next Door from 2021-11-22T09:00:17
Veteran journalist Joe Nocera’s neighbor in the Hamptons was a therapist named Ike. Ike counted celebrities and Manhattan elites as his patients. He’d host star-studded parties at his eccentric vac...
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The Assassination of Clarence Ray Hudgins Part 3: The Devil You Know from 2021-11-15T02:15:42
Part 3 of 3. The October 1981 slaying of 27-year-old Clarence Ray Hudgins at his home near Kilgore, Texas is still unsolved, but it’s not for the lack of effort on his mother’s part. For 40 years n...
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Introducing Killer Psyche from 2021-11-08T23:55:35
Killer Psyche is a new weekly true crime podcast from Wondery that explores the minds behind infamous killers and criminals. They cover high-profile cases that have shocked the world, and host Cand...
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The Assassination of Clarence Ray Hudgins Part 2: Lucas&Toole from 2021-11-08T02:10:10
When two drifters were apprehended states apart in 1983, one began confessing to any and every unsolved murder under the hot Texas sun and beyond. Though the slaying of Clarence Ray Hudgins in Greg...
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The Assassination of Clarence Ray Hudgins Part 1: Firebomb from 2021-11-01T03:59:06
The oilfield business in East Texas, once upon a time, was wrought with shady characters who’d gladly revert to egregious crimes to stay on top of the game. Perhaps that is the reason Oilfield Sand...
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Introducing Shadow of Truth from 2021-10-27T08:00:04
It’s one of the most haunting murder cases you’ll ever hear about, and it takes place in a small town in Israel. Tair Rada was only 13-years-old when her body was found inside a locked bathroom sta...
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Lost in Midland: Where is Caitlin Denison? from 2021-10-25T02:30:42
In January 2018, 19-year-old Caitlin Denison boarded a plane from Reno, Nevada to Midland, Texas. The following day, she briefly spoke with her sister but hasn’t been heard from since. Though the m...
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Dead in the Water: The Murder of Shelley Lou Watkins from 2021-10-18T00:35:24
On Labor Day 1993, Shelley Lou Watkins, her husband Jerry, and others gathered at their cedar Creek Lake home to celebrate the holiday. But after an argument broke out between the couple, Shelley d...
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Introducing Over My Dead Body Season 3: Fox Lake from 2021-10-11T23:41:25
A small-town cop known as “GI Joe” is gunned down in a swamp in the summer of 2015 and quickly becomes a martyr in the national media. But when a dogged investigator and his team set out to get jus...
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The Senseless&Savage Murder of Mikiko Kasahara from 2021-10-11T02:02:23
In December of 2002, Japanese exchange student Mikiko Kasahara was excited to have completed her freshman year at Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, Texas. She acclimated to her new environment w...
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Elizabeth Barclay&the Dallas Child Murders from 2021-10-04T00:52:35
In October of 1979 7-year-old Elizabeth Lynne Barclay, along with her little brother and a neighbor friend, headed to a convenience store near home to get some ice cream. Just minutes after they le...
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The Slaying of Judy Herron and the Kidnapping for Ransom of Amy McNeil from 2021-09-26T23:43:51
In November of 1984, a brutal and shocking murder rocked the otherwise crime-free and exclusive Colleyville subdivision Tara Plantation. Judy Herron was a 37-year-old stay at home parent and was at...
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No Trace: The Disappearance of Tara Breckenridge from 2021-09-20T01:13:02
On August 4th, 1992, 23-year-old Tara Breckenridge vanished without so much as a trace after leaving her job at Houston’s The Men’s Club. Besides a theory that her car was tampered with, Houston De...
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Justice for Carla Part 4: Becky, June,&Christy from 2021-09-18T00:27:41
Glen Samuel McCurley’s heinous and depraved act against Carla Walker was confident and brazen; it was as if the man had done it before. There are many murders in the city of Fort Worth in which McC...
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Justice for Carla Part 3: Guilty from 2021-09-12T22:16:48
In a surprise move, Glen Samuel McCurley changed his plea from “not guilty” to “guilty” on Tuesday, August 24th, 2021, the third day of his trial for the February 1974 murder of Carla Jan Walker. O...
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Justice for Carla Part 2: Confessions from 2021-09-06T02:33
After Glen Samuel McCurley was arrested for the kidnapping, sexual assault, and murder of Carla Walker, Tarrant County Assistant Criminal District Attorneys Kim D’Avignon and Emily Dixon, along wit...
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Introducing Suspect from 2021-08-31T08:00:12
A big Halloween party at an apartment complex in Redmond, Washington. Themed rooms and costumed partygoers. But by the end of the party, one of the hosts is dead. The police look to the partiers as...
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Justice for Carla Part 1: 1974-2020 from 2021-08-29T23:50:20
It wasn’t for a lack of effort and determination that past Fort Worth Police Detectives couldn’t solve the February 17th, 1974 murder of Carla Walker. It was because her killer was a complete stran...
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1 in 48 Octillion: Day 2 of the State of Texas v the Accused Murderer of Carla Walker from 2021-08-24T06:29:37
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Day 1 of the State of Texas v the Accused Murderer of Carla Walker from 2021-08-23T01:12:11
#CarlaWalker #JusticeForCarlaWalker #FortWorth #FortWorthTX #TarrantCountyTexas #Texas #TX #TrueCrime #TrueCrimePodcast #Podcast #ColdCase #Solved #DNA #Murder #UnsolvedMysteries #GoneCold #GoneCol...
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Introducing Dr. Death Season 3: Miracle Man from 2021-08-17T08:00:08
Paolo is a smart and handsome surgeon, renowned for his ability to perform surgeries that transform his patients’ lives. When television producer Benita covers him for a story, he’ll transform her ...
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Death in Houston High Society Epilogue: The Riddle of Dean Goss from 2021-08-16T01:00:12
The final episode of our Death in Houston High Society series. Dean Goss’s final decent was in November of 1992. Both rumors of that the man had committed suicide and been slain by the same person ...
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Death in Houston High Society Part 4: Dean Goss V. Scott Brawley from 2021-08-09T03:47:03
If you’d have asked any of Dean Goss’s friends how he was doing after the death of his second wife Paula, they’d tell you he was a wreck – miserable. None of them seemed to believe the man was resp...
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Death in Houston High Society Part 3: The Murder of Paula Goss from 2021-08-01T22:25:07
A couple years after the death of his first wife Elaine, Dean Goss met and married Paula Brawley. Only months after putting up a substantial amount of money to get Dean’s latest idea off the ground...
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Death in Houston High Society Part 2: The Businessman, the Hitman,&the Killing of Alan Berg from 2021-07-29T04:22:55
In 1982, when Dean Goss needed cash to pay for his murdered wife Elaine’s funeral, he sought out Houston Carpet & Flooring magnate Frank DiMaria. Back in 1968, when Imperial Carpet executive Alan B...
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Introducing The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra from 2021-07-27T08:00:19
Hosted and narrated by John Stamos, The Grand Scheme: Snatching Sinatra is a complicated, nuanced story of one imperfect man trying to redeem himself by pulling off the perfect crime. Did you ever ...
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Death in Houston High Society Part 1: The Murder of Elaine Goss from 2021-07-26T00:59:46
In 1968, Elaine and Dean Goss opened up the Holiday Dinner Theater in Houston, Texas. The place was a huge hit and so was Dean Goss, who quickly became known as “The Jackie Gleason of Houston.” Dea...
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Death in Houston High Society Preface 2: The Murder of Jacque Mossler from 2021-07-18T23:33:25
A year after millionaire businessman Jacque Mossler found out his wife Candy was having an incestuous love affair with her nephew, he was living in Florida after leaving the couples mansion in Hous...
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Death in Houston High Society Preface 1: Candy Mossler from 2021-07-16T00:23:17
When Candy Weatherby Johnson met multimillionaire Jacque Mossler while soliciting donations for the New Orleans Grand Opera Company, the two hit it off and began a whirlwind romance. They settled d...
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The State of Texas v the Accused Murderer of Carla Jan Walker: Pretrial Hearing 2 from 2021-07-11T23:20:11
On Friday, July 9th, 2021, a second pretrial hearing was held in the State of Texas v Glen Samuel McCurley to decide what evidence would be allowed at the accused’s trial, specifically the DNA evid...
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The Mysterious Murder of Jennifer Harris Part 2 from 2021-07-05T01:00:18
The investigation into the murder of 28-year-old Jennifer Harris of Bonham, Texas was virtually cold from the get-go. Besides the jurisdictional issues and lack of leads in the case, some evidence ...
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The Mysterious Murder of Jennifer Harris Part 1 from 2021-06-28T03:23:27
On Mother’s Day 2002, 28-year-old Jennifer Harris disappeared from Bonham, Texas after spending the evening with a close friend. Though she didn’t say with who or where, Jennifer told her friend as...
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The State of Texas v the Accused Murderer of Carla Jan Walker: Pretrial Hearing 1 from 2021-06-25T02:47:09
On Wednesday, June 16th, 2021, a pretrial hearing was held in the State of Texas v Glen Samuel McCurley. I attended and this episode is a brief summary of the testimony and some of the motions to s...
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The Cold-Blooded&Forgotten Slaying of Leslye Diane Koon from 2021-06-21T00:11:45
On January 24th, 1969, one of Gregg County, Texas’s most cold-blooded and savage murders occurred: that of 17-year-old Longview High School senior Leslye Diane Koon. The slaying prompted one of the...
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Cynthia Bah-Traore: Endangered Missing from 2021-06-18T17:37:46
In February of 2021, 39-year-old mother of two and Crowley, Texas resident Cynthia Bah-Traore disappeared. She was caught on surveillance cameras at a Shell gas station in Grandview, about 26 miles...
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The Uncanny Disappearance of Michael Chambers Part 2 from 2021-06-14T00:20:26
Many extensive searches failed to locate 70-year-old retired Dallas Fire Fighter Michael Glen Chambers after he disappeared from his home, presumably, in Hunt County, Texas. With no clues, the Cham...
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Introducing The Devil Within from 2021-06-08T08:00:11
It’s a case that has haunted Jefferson Township, New Jersey, for more than 30 years. On a snowy January night, 14-year-old Tommy Sullivan did the unthinkable: he murdered his mother in cold blood, ...
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The Uncanny Disappearance of Michael Chambers Part 1 from 2021-05-31T01:47:04
In March of 2017, 70-year-old retired Dallas Fire Fighter Michael Glen Chambers was added to a dark list in Hunt County, Texas: a list of unusual and mysterious disappearances. Michael was well-lov...
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Solving the Murder of Mary Catherine Edwards from 2021-05-24T00:09:55
Othram Incorporated CEO David Mittelman joins us to tell the story of the January 1995 rape and slaying of 31-year-old elementary school teacher Mary Catherine Edwards. The case went unsolved for 2...
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Introducing The Vaping Fix from 2021-05-19T21:10:37
Introducing The Vaping Fix from Wondery.
Two young Silicon Valley entrepreneurs set out to rid the world of smoking with an incredible new product. The device stands to disrupt the tobac...
The Murder of Leon Laureles in Brown County, Texas Part 2 from 2021-05-19T02:26:50
Juan Leon Laureles was only 30 years old when he was shot execution style on the side of a small gravel road just east of Brownwood, Texas in May of 1996 – his 1988 Ford Thunderbird ablaze. Few the...
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The Murder of Leon Laureles in Brown County, Texas Part 1 from 2021-05-17T00:55:52
30-year-old Juan Leon Laureles was well-loved and respected by his family and friends. So, when he was murdered execution style and his vehicle set afire, those who knew and loved him were shocked;...
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Briuna La’Fey Harps: An Innocent Victim of Gang Violence from 2021-05-10T02:00:15
Gang violence has been a problem in Fort Worth for decades. On May 17th, 2019 gunfire erupted in the parking lot of the Autumn Chase Apartments in Southeast Fort Worth. The drive-by shooting is tho...
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The Slayings of Janine Johnson&Stephen Taylor in Ferris, Texas from 2021-05-03T00:56:13
29-year-old Janine Johnson and 39-year-old Stephen Taylor had a good thing going. Their romance had blossomed into a full-blown commitment and Stephen had developed an extremely close friendship an...
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When the Devil Came to Gilmer: The Disappearance of Kelly Dae Wilson Part 3 from 2021-04-29T12:58:23
On the night of Sunday, January 5th, 1992 in the small town of Gilmer, Texas 17-year-old Kelly Dae Wilson vanished without a trace. Though a special prosecutor who came to Gilmer with a gleam of gl...
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When the Devil Came to Gilmer: The Disappearance of Kelly Dae Wilson Part 2 from 2021-04-26T02:41:32
Few leads came investigators’ way after 17-year-old Kelly Dae Wilson vanished on the night of Sunday, January 5th, 1992 in the small town of Gilmer, Texas. But Sergeant James York Brown was making ...
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Introducing In God We Lust from 2021-04-20T20:13:30
A woman named Becki is lounging by the pool at the Fontainebleau Hotel when she decides to proposition a strapping pool attendant. Go on a date with her...and her husband. What begins as an unconve...
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When the Devil Came to Gilmer: The Disappearance of Kelly Dae Wilson Part 1 from 2021-04-18T22:53:53
On the night of Sunday, January 5th, 1992 in the small town of Gilmer, Texas 17-year-old Kelly Dae Wilson vanished without a trace. With virtually no clues and fewer leads the investigation moved s...
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Small Town Double Murder: Antonio&Luz Rodriguez from 2021-04-11T23:53:49
The small town of Cleveland, Texas averages only one murder per year. 2005, however, was no ordinary year. In April, while still grieving the loss of a close loved one who was brutally slain just m...
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Introducing My Fugitive from 2021-04-06T00:47:32
Nina Gilden Seavey was twelve on May 5, 1970, the day an Air Force building in St. Louis burned to the ground. Her dad represented a young man accused of the crime: Howard Mechanic. Facing serious ...
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The Savage Murder of John Godfrey in Victoria Part 2 from 2021-04-05T00:01:52
When John Godfrey’s body was found down a rural road just outside the Victoria city limits on Tuesday, December 7th, 1976 it changed the town for many. Not only was John’s the third unsolved murder...
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Introducing: Spy Affair from 2021-03-30T07:00:09
A charismatic Russian woman arrives in the US on a mission to improve relations between the two countries, and she soon makes some powerful friends. But who is Maria Butina? And who is she working ...
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The Savage Murder of John Godfrey in Victoria Part 1 from 2021-03-29T03:42:39
John Godfrey had everything going for him. He was fresh out of high school, enrolled in college, and pursuing his passion as the newest and youngest member of local Victoria, Texas rock-n-roll band...
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Introducing: MAN-Slaughter from 2021-03-17T08:00:14
MAN-Slaughter tells intertwining stories about how one gunshot on a cold Wisconsin night in 1970 dramatically changed multiple lives. A bullet brutally tore through decorated law enforcement vetera...
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Introducing The Doodler from 2021-03-16T08:00:07
We’d like to introduce you to a new documentary podcast series from Ugly Duckling Films and the San Francisco Chronicle. Join Pulitzer Prize-nominated San Francisco Chronicle reporter Kevin Fagan, ...
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The Mysterious Death or Disappearance of Texas Oilman Ed Baker Part 2 from 2021-03-15T00:03:18
After the discovery of the burnt car that belonged to millionaire Houston oilman Ed Baker, speculation was abound. Though the medical examiner finally ruled that the body found inside was indeed Ed...
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The Mysterious Death or Disappearance of Texas Oilman Ed Baker Part 1 from 2021-03-08T03:09:06
In November of 1985, rice farmers harvesting crops just north of the Texas small town Katy found the smoldering remains of a car in one of the fields. Inside the vehicle, Harris County Sheriff’s De...
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The Disappearance&Brutal Murder of D’Lisa Kelley Part 2 from 2021-03-01T03:41:18
After leaving her Grandmother’s house to attend her best friend’s wake on a Friday in March of 2014, 24-year-old mother D’Lisa Kelley, who was expecting another child, vanished. Even considering th...
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The Disappearance&Brutal Murder of D’Lisa Kelley Part 1 from 2021-02-21T23:46:27
On March 7th, 2014, 24-year-old mother D’Lisa Kelley, who was expecting another child, left her Grandmother’s home on foot to attend her best friend’s wake. She didn’t have a ride but knew the Oak ...
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Christy Tower&Hillside Jane Doe: The Other February Slayings from 2021-02-08T02:34:58
Beginning in 1967, a series of murders in Fort Worth that had at least a few similarities began. Their obvious similarity: they all took place in the month of February. We’ve covered four of them o...
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Double Murder: The Slayings of Hattie&Vernon Stanley from 2021-02-01T04:34:28
By 1959, Vernon and Hattie Stanley were long settled into their empty nest in a quiet, middle class neighborhood in Fort Worth’s northside. Vernon, a veteran of World War I, had retired from workin...
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The Story of Jolaine Hemmy and Pecos Jane Doe from 2021-01-25T04:40:27
The Story of Jolaine Hemmy and Pecos Jane Doe
Back in August 2019, we released an episode telling the story of the death of a Jane Doe at the Roper’s Motel in Pecos, Texas in July of 1966. Not...
Wondery Presents: The Apology Line from 2021-01-19T10:00:17
If you could call a number and say you’re sorry, and no one would know…what would you apologize for? For fifteen years, you could call a number in Manhattan and do just that. This is the story of t...
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The Fort Worth Missing Trio Part 7: The Mall Passer, The Eleven,&No Ending from 2021-01-11T02:08:28
Two more semi-well-known criminals have been woven into the fabric of this story, the story of the disappearances of Rachel Trlica, Renee Wilson, and Julie Moseley. In this final part of our series...
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The Fort Worth Missing Trio Part 6: The Other Private Investigator from 2021-01-04T03:01:31
When Private Investigator Dan James came on the case in the mid-1990s, he was continuing work he’d already been doing in his spare time since Rachel Trlica, Renee Wilson, and Julie Moseley disappea...
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The Fort Worth Missing Trio Part 5: The Race Car Driver and Other Bad Actors from 2020-12-28T03:20:47
Whether officially or as the result of citizen sleuthing, there have been many persons of interest in the disappearances of Julie Moseley, Renee Wilson, and Rachel Trlica. On this episode: a suspec...
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The Fort Worth Missing Trio Part 4: Jon Swaim and the Brazoria Bones from 2020-12-21T00:33:31
After doing everything they knew to do and after coming to the conclusion that the Fort Worth Police were not, the families of 17-year-old Rachel Trlica, 14-year-old Renee Wilson, and 9-year-old Ju...
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The Fort Worth Missing Trio Part 3: From Nowhere to Nowhere from 2020-12-19T01:42:21
In the days and weeks following the disappearances of 17-year-old Rachel Trlica, 14-year-old Renee Wilson, and 9-year-old Julie Moseley on December 24th, 1974, and after the arrival of the infamous...
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The Fort Worth Missing Trio Part 2: The Letter from 2020-12-14T01:32:16
On December 24th, 1974, the day following the disappearances of 17-year-old Rachel Trlica, 14-year-old Renee Wilson, and 9-year-old Julie Moseley – Rachel’s husband received a letter in the mailbox...
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Wondery Presents: Death of a Starlet from 2020-12-08T10:00:12
Nineteen eighty was going to be Dorothy Stratten’s year. Playboy’s Hugh Hefner thought it might even be her decade. She was just 20 years old, the girl next door with the shy smile and whispery voi...
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The Fort Worth Missing Trio Part 1: Julie Moseley, Renee Wilson,&Rachel Trlica from 2020-12-07T01:42:44
On December 23rd, 1974, just a couple days before Christmas, three girls – 17-year-old Rachel Trlica, 14-year-old Renee Wilson, and 9-year-old Julie Moseley – set out for a shopping trip. They had ...
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The Attempted Murder&Disappearance of Martha Martinez Maxwell from 2020-11-23T02:00:10
In April of 1987, authorities in Carter County, Oklahoma found a Watauga, Texas woman on the side of the highway barely clinging to life. She was bound with duct tape, severely beaten, and covered ...
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The Cold-Blooded Slaying of Paula Jean Davenport from 2020-11-09T01:31:17
On April 25th, 1978, 25-year-old Paula Jean Davenport left home to go bowling with her company’s league. She never made it into the Brunswick Bowlerland, however, and never made it back home. Paula...
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Mysteries of Boerne, Texas Part 2: The Deaths of Nichol, Alexa, and London&The Killing of Beth Hicks from 2020-11-02T02:00:12
In January of 2019, in far south Boerne, Texas, a Bexar County 911 dispatcher received a call. There’d been a suicide, the caller said. Three people – Nichol Olsen and her daughters Alexa and Londo...
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Mysteries of Boerne, Texas Part 1: The Bizarre Death of Colonel Philip Shue from 2020-10-26T02:55:54
On the morning of April 16th, 2003, United States Air Force Col Philip Michael Shue left his home in Boerne, Texas to head to work at Lackland Air Force base in San Antonio. Col Shue never made it ...
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Ara Johnson, Angelica Gandara, Amber Crum,&The Boogeyman from 2020-10-19T00:26:48
They were many miles apart. The investigations and the immediate suspects, or lack thereof, of each case starkly different. But the disappearances of Amber Crum in 1983, Angelica Gandara in 1985, a...
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The Mysterious Disappearance&Unexplained Death of Sharon West from 2020-10-11T23:38:56
At the end of July 2011, the small towns of Fannett and Hamshire, just southwest of Beaumont, Texas, became the center of an ongoing mystery. Sharon West, a 14-year-old girl who was at her Dad’s fo...
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Hub City Homicides Part 2: Marcella Valenzuela, Elizabeth Price,&Naomi Martin from 2020-10-05T00:03:06
The year 1976 was shaping up to be as violent and bloody as the previous year in Lubbock, Texas, beginning with the mysterious death of Marcella Valenzuela in January. Her death led investigators a...
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The Abduction&Murder of Carla Walker: The Impact of the Arrest&Honoring Carla’s Memory from 2020-09-28T00:31:48
This episode we detail how the arrest of Glen Samuel McCurley came to be with the help of David Mittelman of Othram lncorporated, the company who identified the man’s surname through a DNA profile ...
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Carla Walker: The Arrest of Glen Samuel McCurley from 2020-09-23T03:30:08
A summary of the arrest warrant affidavit of Glen Samuel McCurley, charged with the capital murder of Carla Jan Walker in 1974
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Hub City Homicides Part 1: Vickie June Stokes&Deborah Sue Williamson from 2020-09-21T00:45:12
Throughout the 1970s, Lubbock Texas lived up the nickname “Hub City,” though not for the reasons they wanted. It was a hub for criminal activity. The city’s violent crime rate was and is high but a...
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Death of a Family: The Slayings of Frank, Connie,&Dante from 2020-09-14T02:00:13
Though El Paso’s homicide rate lags significantly behind the national average, murders in the West Texas desert city can be dark and gruesome. Not many compare in sheer brutality and violence, howe...
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Carmen Croan Part 2: The Drifters from 2020-09-08T01:32:27
After months of investigating the August 1981 slaying of Carmen Croan, the Ector County Sheriff’s Office was frustrated, particularly investigator David Saunders. After the bizarre kidnapping of an...
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Carmen Croan Part 1: Not Your Everyday Murder from 2020-08-31T01:25:28
Ector County Sheriff’s Office investigator David Saunders called the August 1981 slaying of Carmen Croan “not your everyday murder.” Though the quote hardly described the brutality and sheer evil o...
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The Executions of Tina Combs&Jimmy Wright from 2020-08-24T01:30:12
When Jimmy and Tina met online through a friend’s Facebook post, it was almost as if it were meant to be. The two had a lot in common, including connections through family to their home state of In...
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Death on the Highway: The Murder of Amanda Clairmont from 2020-08-17T01:08:50
In November of 2017, patrol officers from the small city of Corinth came across a vehicle parked in a vacant lot with the lights on. They approached the suspicious car and discovered the body of a ...
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Joshua Davis Jr: Nowhere to be Found from 2020-08-10T01:50:02
It was unusually cold in New Braunfels, Texas on February 4th, 2011 and the icy roads were brushed lightly with snow. That evening, 18-month-old Joshua JayVaughn Davis Junior went missing from his ...
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The Mysterious&Suspicious Death of Dr. George Chronis from 2020-08-03T02:00:09
In May of 2018, after having problems with the caretaker of his Rains County, Texas ranch, 57-year-old George Chronis headed down from his home in suburban Chicago, Illinois to handle the situation...
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Shallow Grave: The Slaying of Helen Dawn Williams from 2020-07-27T01:45:04
In October 1993, Thurgood Marshall School of Law student Dawn Williams vanished without so much as a trace. Fellow students, friends, and family searched everywhere but no clues were found. Houston...
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The Murder of Lecia Ann McGee Part 2: The Suspect from 2020-07-20T01:31:45
A suspect finally emerged in the January 1978 slaying of seventeen-year-old Lecia Ann McGee in 2009 – more than 30 years later. DNA linked the man to Lecia’s brutal death, but the Tarrant County Di...
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The Murder of Lecia Ann McGee Part 1: Cold&Deadly Night from 2020-07-13T01:56:03
January 1978 was an unusually cold month in Fort Worth, Texas. Though the city would brag about falling murder rates that year, when it was all said and done, the year was just as deadly as many be...
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Preacher’s Daughter: The Savage Slaying of Camille Norman from 2020-06-29T01:41:04
In January of 1996, Camille Norman, daughter of a popular 1960s revival evangelist, was brutally killed at her home in the Dallas suburb of Pleasant Grove. The day before, an elderly woman in the a...
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No Trace: The Disappearances of Pamela and Michael Mayfield from 2020-06-22T03:48:22
In January of 1985, siblings Michael and Pamela Mayfield were last seen getting into a vehicle willfully on their way home from school. The six-year-old and five-year-old, respectively, were never ...
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The Crossroads Tavern Massacre&Other Port Lavaca Mysteries from 2020-06-15T01:19:47
Port Lavaca, Texas isn’t on the short list of the most well-known town in the Lone Star State. Many have never even heard of the bay city, in fact, particularly those out of state. Perhaps everyone...
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Plainview Jane Doe&the Fraudulent Pathologist from 2020-06-08T01:48:17
When the frozen, headless body of a woman was found off a deserted road in rural Hale County just outside of Plainview in 1982, the case was cold from the start. Months later, when a skull was foun...
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The Murder of Cheryl Ann Callaway at the Forum 303 Mall from 2020-05-18T02:00:02
One detective called the slaying of Cheryl Ann Callaway “the most vicious murder in Arlington’s history.” On January 30th, 1974, just months before she was to be married, 18-year-old Cheryl’s life ...
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Little Girl’s Nightmare: The Execution of Peggy Lynn Howard from 2020-05-11T02:00:04
The morning of Monday, October 26th, 1998 was like any other for Peggy Lynn Howard and her young daughter. The two got up, performed their normal morning routine, and left their home for school and...
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The Memorial Day Murder of Stefanie Joy Hill from 2020-04-26T23:31:32
After Texas Tech University closed the 2000 school year, most of Stefanie Hill’s friends had gone on vacation or home to spend the summer with family. Stefanie stayed in Lubbock to work, however, a...
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All-American Girl: The Abduction of Suzanne Rene Richerson from 2020-04-20T01:27:24
On October 7th, 1988, when Texas A&M University senior Rene Richerson disappeared from her job as the night clerk at the Casa Del Mar Condo-Hotel Complex, signs of foul play were few and far betwee...
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The Forgotten Girls: Sondra Ramber and Michelle Doherty Thomas from 2020-04-12T23:44:46
Fourteen-year-old Sondra Kay Ramber vanished from her home without so much as a trace in 1983, not long after moving to the town of Santa Fe, Texas. Two years later, in 1985, seventeen-year-old San...
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Lady in the Lake: The Mysterious Death of Charlene Sigler from 2020-03-30T00:25:59
When Lake LBJ was partially drained to make way for the construction of a thermal power plant in 1970, a new development was also made in a five-year-old mystery. That was when Charlene Frances Sig...
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The Malicious Murder of Megan Curl from 2020-03-23T02:00:08
In the early morning hours of March 26th, 2001, a neighbor of 26-year-old Megan Curl smelled something burning. When they investigated, they discovered a fire coming from Megan’s apartment, smoke b...
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Murder in the Piney Woods: Jessica Louise Sadler from 2020-03-16T01:43:50
After leaving her house for a walk in the woods on the afternoon of October 19th, 2001, fifteen-year-old Jessica Sadler vanished. Though police deemed her a runaway, family and volunteers from all ...
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An Act Most Evil: The Murder of Edna Rodriguez from 2020-03-09T02:00:15
Far worse can be imagined that the death of an innocent child at the hands of a predator. In 2019, luckily, Salem Sabatka’s fate was not death, thanks to a swift response by both the Fort Worth Pol...
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The Horrific Overkilling of Jacqueline Graham from 2020-03-02T03:00:06
In April of 1988, the murder of a young, 19-year-old woman left the Harris County Sheriff’s Office horrified. Detectives then and in the years following were haunted by the excessive methods used b...
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Officer Down: The Ambush Killing of Lowell C. Tribble from 2020-02-24T03:00:11
In the twilight hours of Saturday, August 23rd, 1983, Officer LC Tribble was gunned down in his patrol vehicle outside his Farmers Branch, Texas apartment after dropping off medicine to his ill two...
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The Slaying of Doris Rivers and the DNA Debacle from 2020-02-17T03:00:21
On November 11th, 1970, Veteran’s Day, the bloody body of Doris Lorene Rivers was found in her El Paso apartment by her sister and 5-year-old son. Though the police were able to identify a suspect ...
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The Baffling Disappearance of a Coed: Virginia Carpenter from 2020-02-10T03:00:05
On June 1st, 1948, Mary Virginia Carpenter stepped off Texas-Pacific train 31 in Denton and stepped into oblivion. “The world swallowed her up,” Texas Ranger Lewis Rigler later said of the 21-year-...
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The Two Lives and Slaying of Elizabeth Bettis from 2020-02-03T03:00:18
On Thanksgiving Day in 1982, the body of Elizabeth Bettis was found in a field in rural Travis County. She was last seen leaving her place of employment, Sugar’s adult entertainment, the evening be...
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Who Killed Holly? The Murder of Holly Palmer Part 2 from 2020-01-27T02:30:24
After Holly Palmer’s brutal beating death on November 27th, 1988, Granbury Police and Hood County Sheriff’s Department Officers began looking anywhere and everywhere for someone who might have want...
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Act of Rage: The Murder of Holly Palmer Part 1 from 2020-01-20T03:00:13
Holly Palmer was a well-liked and much-admired resident of Granbury, Texas. At 23 years old, she had her entire life ahead of her and she was well on her way to living it. She was working while als...
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Death in the Panhandle: The Murder of Elsa Romo-Nickell from 2020-01-06T03:00:18
In July of 1969 in the small town of Panhandle, Texas, Elsa Romo-Nickell was found murdered on her bed as the morning alarm that was meant to wake her buzzed loudly. Leads were scarce as the crime ...
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The Tragic Disappearance&Murder of Hailey Dunn from 2019-12-16T03:16:34
On December 27th, 2010, thirteen-year-old Hailey Darlene Dunn vanished. The media frenzy that ensued after her disappearance often seemed as if the girl herself had been forgotten. Billie Jean Dunn...
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Bloody Presents: The Disappearance of Chance&Dub and the Killing of Trish from 2019-12-09T02:39:22
Just after Christmas in 1993, the body of 38-year-old Latricia “Trish” White was found by her worried father who’d come to check on her. She’d been shot to death in her own bed. Her boyfriend, Lee ...
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Secret Hope: The Disappearance of Sharon “Sarah” McCully from 2019-12-02T03:00:17
When she dropped her husband back off at work after picking him up for lunch on Monday, December 10th, 1984, Sharon “Sarah” McCully had an errand to run. That evening, when her husband John returne...
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Bon Jovi&The Mysterious Death of Katherine Erin Korzilius from 2019-11-25T03:00:17
On August 7th, 1996, six-year-old Katherine Korzilius got out of her mother’s car to walk the rest of the way home. The walk was only about an eighth of a mile and when her daughter didn’t return, ...
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Satanic Panic and the Murders of Sally McNelly&Shane Stewart from 2019-11-18T03:00:19
On July 4th, 1988, Sally McNelly and Shane Stewart disappeared sometime around midnight. Their bodies were found miles away from where they were last seen months later. Investigators had little to ...
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The Savage Slaying of Brittany McGlone from 2019-11-11T03:00:12
In Wood County, Texas in May of 2007, Brittany McGlone was murdered, seemingly as she slept, in her boyfriend’s home while everyone who live in the house was away. Nothing else in the home was dist...
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Taken for Ransom: The Kidnapping of Kim Leggett from 2019-11-04T03:00:06
On October 9th, 1984, a mystery began in Mercedes, Texas, adding to the many others in the Rio Grande Valley. Twenty-one-year-old Kim Sue Leggett was kidnapped from her place of employment, Ross Co...
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Unintended Target: The Shooting Death of Marianne Wilkinson from 2019-10-28T02:00:09
On December 9th, 2007, sixty-seven-year-old Marianne Wilkinson was murdered by an assailant who shot her multiple times as she opened her front door. North Richland Hills Police Investigators were ...
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Small Town Nightmare: The Abduction&Murder of Cortney Clayton from 2019-10-21T02:00:03
In the small town of Stamford, Texas, in September of 1988, seven-year-old Cortney Clayton disappeared after walking to a convenience store down the block from her house to buy a coke. Searches and...
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West Texas Boogie Men and the Forgotten from 2019-10-14T03:44:16
West Texas in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s was seeing more violent crime than ever; the ultimate violence, murder, was certainly no exception. Many cases were solved throughout the regio...
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The Odessa Full Moon Murders from 2019-10-07T02:51:40
From October 1968 to June 1971, five murders shook the residents of Odessa, Texas. Linda Cougot, Eula Miller, Ruth Maynard and Gloria Sue Greene in Odessa, and Nancy Mitchell in nearby Kermit. The ...
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The Orchard Apartment Murders and the Butcher of Houston from 2019-09-30T02:50:29
The first half of 1979 kept Houston Police’s homicide department busier than they’d ever been; the year had already broken records for the most violent crimes and murders the city had ever seen. Th...
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The Killing of Kathy Page Part 2: Three Billboards and Civil Liability from 2019-09-23T02:00:11
When Kathy Page’s father erected three signs along Interstate 10 implicating his daughter’s husband in her 1991 killing, it was out of frustration resulting both from the Vidor Police’s failure to ...
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The Killing of Kathy Page Part 1: Staging a Murder from 2019-09-16T02:00:18
In the early morning of May 14th, 1991 off the Interstate 10 access road in Vidor, Texas, a newspaper carrier discovered what appeared to be the scene of a tragic accident. When police arrived on ...
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The Disappearance of Kristen Charbonneau Part 2: Hunters for Justice from 2019-09-09T02:00:07
After Kristen Charbonneau disappeared on Thursday, August 11th, 2005, a person of interest quickly emerged – a good one – but Euless Police were unable to make an arrest. Kristen’s parents, out of ...
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The Disappearance of Kristen Charbonneau Part 1: Deception, Secrets,&Moore from 2019-09-03T02:00:11
On Thursday, August 11th, 2005, Kristen Charbonneau was asked to go home early from the club she danced for in far east Fort Worth. Her employer called a cab but when the driver arrived, Kristen wa...
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The Abductions&Murders of Heidi Seeman&Erica Botello from 2019-08-26T02:05:14
The carefree Summer of 1990 in San Antonio, Texas ended in unimaginable tragedy for two families, the entire city, and, most of all, two innocent children. In the month of August, only 19 days apar...
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The Mysterious Kidnapping of Melissa Highsmith from 2019-08-19T02:00:02
On August 23rd, 1971, a babysitter picked up 21-month-old Melissa Highsmith from her mother’s apartment in Fort Worth, Texas. The woman, who identified herself as Ruth Johnson, however, never retur...
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Slaying in Sugarland: Marilu Geri from 2019-08-12T01:41:30
Marilu Geri and her husband, Stephen, were doing well for themselves; they had a big house in a nice neighborhood, a successful business, and appeared to be content with their lives. On February 14...
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The Death of Jolaine Hemmy (Pecos Jane Doe) at the Ropers Motel from 2019-08-05T02:00:05
On Tuesday, July 5th, 1966, a young woman and young man checked into the Ropers Motel in Pecos, Texas. Hours later, the guests and staff were startled by the sounds of flailing slashes and screams ...
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The Suspicious Death of Tamara Jean “Mousey” Holcknecht from 2019-07-29T02:05:13
Tamara Jean Holcknecht was known as “Mousey” by her friends and family, all who adored the funny, sweet, and talented young woman. Mousey went missing in late February of 2007, and though everyone ...
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Summer of a Lost Girl: The Abduction&Murder of Dannarriah Finley from 2019-07-22T02:56:47
In the Summer of 2002, the national press was ablaze with stories of missing and murdered children; one case in particular held the attention span of the national media machine and many others fell...
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The Murder of Susan Eads from 2019-07-15T03:17:16
(SOLVED 5/20) On Wednesday, August 31st, 1983 the nude body of Susan Lee Eads was discovered among the brush in a ditch on an empty lot at NASA Road One and Elam Street in Seabrook. Susan had been ...
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The Abduction of Shelley Sikes from 2019-07-08T02:05:07
Shelley Sikes was last seen in the late-night hours of Saturday, May 24th as she left work to head home. She never made it and a couple hours later, her boyfriend and his father found her 1983 Ford...
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The Dallas Lipstick Murder: The Strangulation of Debbie Martinson from 2019-06-17T01:42:39
Don Martinson returned home from jury duty on March 31st, 1980 to find his wife slain on the floor of the couple’s bedroom at their home in North Dallas. Don was devastated by most accounts but ins...
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Candy Mora: The Killing That Haunts Harlingen from 2019-06-10T02:05:13
On January 8th, 1973, a worried friend of Candy Anne Fletcher-Mora entered her apartment in Harlingen, TX to find her baby daughter sound asleep in her crib but found Candy viciously murdered; she’...
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City of Hate: Carolyn Montgomery…the Wrong One? from 2019-06-03T01:05:11
While the 1970s were a time of independence and fulfillment, they were also a time when many, especially women, lived in fear. Dallas, over a short time span from 1970 to 1971, was bombarded with a...
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City of Hate: The Bizarre Lust Murders from 2019-05-28T01:27:35
Over a short time span in 1970 and 1971, a slew of murders occurred in Dallas, Texas in which the press dubbed the “Bizarre Lust Murders.” Most of the crimes were considered to be sexually motivate...
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City of Hate: The Brutal Slaying of Beverly Jean Hope from 2019-05-20T01:45:55
On Wednesday, October 28th, 1970, Beverly Jean Hope, known as Jean to most, was supposed to pick up a friend for a lunch date, but never arrived. Jean’s husband was sent to check on her and upon hi...
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The Poisoning of Patsy Wright, Part Two: Up in Flames from 2019-05-13T02:00:34
Patricia Bolton Wright’s death on October 23nd, 1987, launched an investigation that uncovered a complicated and convoluted list of potential suspects, motives, missing pertinent documents, and eve...
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The Poisoning of Patsy Wright, Part One: Something’s Not Right from 2019-05-06T02:05:22
Patricia Bolton Wright had everything going for her; the Wax Museum of the Southwest, her business in Grand Prairie, was a tourist draw and a local staple, she’d just purchased a ranch, and she was...
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The Abduction&Murder of Ashley Nicole Estell from 2019-04-29T01:15:40
The abduction and murder of 7-year-old Ashley Nicole Estell sent shockwaves through Plano, a Dallas suburban outlier. The community was as void of crime as a Texas city gets but the murder of a you...
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The Death of Surfer Girls Debbie Ackerman&Maria Johnson from 2019-04-22T01:54:33
On November 15th, 1971, best friends Debbie Ackerman and Maria Johnson went missing after reportedly hitchhiking to Houston. Two days later, their bodies were found in Turner’s Bayou outside of Tex...
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Carla Walker Update: Fort Worth Police Press Release from 2019-04-19T23:42:46
Today, April 19th, 2019, Fort Worth Police dropped a press release concerning the February 1974 abduction, sexual assault, and murder of Carla Walker.
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“Put a Bullet in Him”: The Killing of Christopher Tiensch from 2019-04-15T02:05:15
On September 19th, 2008, an email was sent from one executive of Plus SMS to another, relaying the message, “put a bullet in…Chris,” referring to the company’s then-CEO, Christopher Robert Tiensch....
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The Sun Family Assassinations from 2019-04-08T02:05:04
After not hearing from their prized employee for almost an entire work week, Cameron International contacted law enforcement and asked that they perform a welfare check at Maoye Sun’s home. They di...
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Murder of the Paris Hermit, Auvord Bevans Braithwaite Jones from 2019-04-01T04:54:25
January 24th, 1963 was the last time the residents of Paris, Texas would see the eccentric and mysterious hermit, Auvord Bevans Braithwaite Jones. Not only had Auvord gained the respect and adorati...
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Massacre at Loma Alta: The Arellano Family Murders from 2019-03-25T02:05:10
On April 16th, 1968, in the Arellano’s packed in the family’s Buick and headed away from their Villa de Fuente, Mexico home to San Angelo, Texas to visit an expecting family member. The car was pac...
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The Killing Fields of Montgomery County from 2019-03-18T02:21:06
Between 1980 and 1983, the slayings of five young women baffled Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office Investigators. Similarities between a few would have police theorizing a connection. The most stri...
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Mysterious Slaying of an Heiress: The Story Of Caroline Harte from 2019-03-11T02:05:11
In the summer of 1969, Caroline Louise Harte joined her friend May’s family at their summer home near the beaches of Port Aransas. Caroline and May enjoyed themselves the five days they spent toget...
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Jared Chavis, Part Two from 2019-03-04T03:14:50
Jared Chavis went missing January 12, 2018 in Houston, TX, but his case is far from typical. His family has been trying to piece together what happened to Jared that night, but the story is still n...
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Jared Chavis, Part One from 2019-02-25T01:40:44
Jared Chavis went missing January 12, 2018 in Houston, TX. His family fears that something tragic has happened to Jared due to the circumstances surrounding his disappearance. Witnesses report that...
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Gary&Stephanie Gillette, Part Four: Fallout from 2019-02-18T04:19:19
For family members of the victims of unsolved homicide cases, day to day reality is different. They spend considerable amount of time trying to make sense of exactly what happened and why. It somet...
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Gary&Stephanie Gillette, Part Three: The Constable from 2019-02-11T03:00:05
No one except Stephanie and Gary Gillette’s murderer, or murderers, knows what transpired at the Gillette home in the early morning hours of Saturday, December 14th, 1985. What is clear, however, i...
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Gary&Stephanie Gillette, Part Two: Scene of the Crime from 2019-02-04T05:48:24
The Corpus Christi Police spent ample time and manpower investigating the scene of Stephanie and Gary Gillette’s murders. The finding of two items in particular was huge. Some details of the crime ...
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Gary&Stephanie Gillette, Part One: Change Of Plans from 2019-01-28T02:36:06
Gary’s children were supposed to arrive at the home of their Father and Step-Mother, Stephanie, the evening before the couple were brutally slain in the early morning hours of Saturday, December 14...
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Walker County Jane Doe from 2019-01-22T05:36:04
On November 1st, 1980, the unclothed body of a young woman was found on the side of Interstate 45 near Huntsville in Walker County, Texas.
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Debra Jackson (Orange Socks), Sandra Mae Dubbs,&The Bloody Route from 2019-01-14T02:32:19
“It was just a convenient place to dump the bodies. There is just a hell of a lot of sin that goes up and down that highway” - Williamson County Sheriff Jim Boutwell, referring to Interstate 35 in ...
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David Emerson, Jr. from 2019-01-08T06:12:11
David Emerson, Jr. was last seen on New Year’s Eve of 2014 but family, as well as police, are no closer to knowing what happened to the then 35-year-old man now than they were then. Sonia Gonzalez,...
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Holiday Special, Part Three from 2018-12-31T03:07:11
Everyone interested in the genre of True Crime has that one case that hooked them, or that haunts them, and we’ve asked several podcasters who we admire to share with us what that case was for them...
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Holiday Special, Part Two from 2018-12-24T02:32:44
Everyone interested in the genre of True Crime has that one case that hooked them, or that haunts them, and we’ve asked several podcasters who we admire to share with us what that case was for them...
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Holiday Special, Part One from 2018-12-17T03:01:59
Everyone interested in the genre of True Crime has that one case that hooked them, or that haunts them, and we’ve asked several podcasters who we admire to share with us what that case was for them...
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Margaret&William Patterson, Part Three: Indiscretions from 2018-12-10T03:18:12
El Paso County Sheriff’s Office Investigators didn’t necessarily uncover any tangible evidence in the 1957 disappearances of Margaret and William Patterson but circumstantial evidence, and scenario...
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Margaret&William Patterson, Part Two: Extended Vacation from 2018-12-03T03:32:51
When the investigation of the 1957 disappearances of Margaret and William Patterson finally began months after the couple was last seen, it was obvious from the get-go that the El Paso County Sheri...
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Margaret&William Patterson, Part One: Tommy from 2018-11-27T05:20:37
Many legends and mysteries exist around the West Texas City of El Paso but, perhaps, no one story from the city is more mysterious than the 1957 disappearances of William and Margaret Patterson. Th...
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Taalibah Islam & Typhenie Johnson, Part Two from 2018-11-12T04:54:41
On October 10th, 2016, Typhenie Johnson vanished while speaking with her ex-boyfriend, Christopher Revill, in east Fort Worth, Texas. It was immediately clear that Chris had kidnapped, and potentia...
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Taalibah Islam & Typhenie Johnson, Part One from 2018-11-05T03:20:16
On October 10th, 2016, Typhenie Johnson vanished while speaking with her ex-boyfriend, Christopher Revill, in east Fort Worth, Texas. It was immediately clear that Chris had kidnapped, and potentia...
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Ka'Diece, Ka'Sheim, Jasmine,&Tammy Cooper from 2018-10-29T03:52:39
On October 25th, 2004, four of the most brutal murders in the history of Lubbock, Texas took place; the murders of Ka'Diece, Ka'Sheim, and Mahogany Jasmine Allen and their mother, Tammy Cooper, sho...
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Suzie Mages, Part Five: Suzie’s Legacy from 2018-10-22T02:53:50
When someone’s life is taken, what is left behind is trauma, anguish, confusion, and just about any other type of emotion one can imagine that feeds the cyclical state of grief which, no matter how...
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Suzie Mages, Part Four: Lisa from 2018-10-15T02:36:53
Though we had originally intended to close Suzie's case with the story of her legacy this episode, fate had other plans in mind. We were contacted by an individual, a close friend of Suzie's, and w...
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Suzie Mages, Part Three: Further Investigation from 2018-10-08T01:50
Two individuals particularly stuck out to police and Del and Mary in Suzie’s disappearance and murder. One became a person of interest early on and the other, much to Mary and Del’s dismay, seemed ...
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Suzie Mages, Part Two: The Investigation from 2018-10-01T01:55
There are many strange circumstances surrounding Suzie Mages’ disappearance and murder. From a similar unsolved homicide to a homicide that seemed to use that unsolved case and Suzie’s as an attem...
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Suzie Mages, Part One: Denton’s Lost Innocence from 2018-09-24T02:18
In 1977, a crime took place in Denton, Texas that shook the community to its core; though you’d hardly call Denton “uneventful,” it was a place where residents and college students felt safe and fr...
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Nicole Irene Garcia from 2018-09-17T05:16
Because it isn’t breaking any laws to disappear when you’re eighteen or older, most law enforcement agencies in the US deem adult missing persons cases a relatively low priority. There are Amber Al...
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Alexandria “Ali” Joy Lowitzer, Part Two from 2018-09-12T01:59
Ali Lowitzer stepped off her school bus yards from her home in 2010 never to be seen again. Theories as to what happened to her range from homicide to sex trafficking, the latter seemingly a distin...
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Alexandria “Ali” Joy Lowitzer, Part One from 2018-09-10T00:09
No matter how watchful an eye we keep on our children, it is difficult to completely shield them from the bad in the world; this is especially true when a malevolent individual, or individuals, tar...
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The February Slayings, Part Three: June Ward from 2018-08-27T02:42
June Ward was the final victim of “The February Slayings.” Her homicide was, perhaps, the most brutal of the four young women and was certainly the least publicized. It’s difficult to imagine why; ...
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The February Slayings, Part Two: Becky Martin from 2018-08-20T03:35
The second victim of “The February Slayings” came several years after Mildred May’s 1967 murder. Becky Martin disappeared one February night in 1973; her remains were found over a month later on th...
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The February Slayings, Part One: Mildred May from 2018-08-13T03:34
After the abduction and murder of Carla Walker in February of 1974, the police loosely theorized a possible connection to two prior unsolved homicides. These murders shared some similarities with C...
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Carla Walker, Part Nine: Justice for Carla from 2018-08-06T03:36
After discussing nearly every detail of the evidence of, and investigation into, the abduction and murder of Carla Walker, we offer our closing thoughts into why we believe the perpetrator has, thu...
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Carla Walker, Part Eight: Other Persons of Interest from 2018-07-30T03:17
Are there other individuals besides the persons of interest that triggered the Fort Worth Police Department’s attention during the investigation into Carla Walker’s homicide? We found a few that ma...
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Carla Walker, Part Seven: Detective John Terrell from 2018-07-23T03:43
Few individuals outside of the Walker family dedicated their lives to finding Carla Walker’s murderer; to be certain, no police officer worked as diligently and relentlessly as Fort Worth Police De...
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Carla Walker, Part Six: Persons of Interest from 2018-07-16T03:06
A few persons of interest emerged during the investigation into Carla Walker’s homicide. Unfortunately, none panned out, even a few that seemed particularly capable of the crime. Tommy Ray Kneeland...
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Carla Walker, Part Five: The Autopsy Report from 2018-07-09T03:28
Medical Examiner and Forensic Pathologist, Grace Dukes, Criminal Investigator and Host of Coroner Talk Podcast, Darren Dake, and Dr. Doyce Cartrett join us this episode to discuss the findings of C...
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Carla Walker, Part Four: The Evidence&Investigation from 2018-07-02T05:00
In this episode we discuss the timeline of events that occurred on the night of Carla’s abduction, the evidence found there, what was and wasn’t found on the scene where her body was discovered, an...
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Carla Walker, Part Three: Rodney from 2018-06-24T07:00
Rodney McCoy was also a victim of the madman responsible for Carla Walker’s abduction and murder; he was beaten and sustained several injuries to his face and head. Not being able to stop the perpe...
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Carla Walker, Part Two: Cindy&Jim from 2018-06-17T07:00
In this episode Carla’s sister, Cindy, and brother, Jim, tell us about Carla’s personality. Cindy and Jim also provide their recollections about the night of her abduction, the days before she was ...
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Carla Walker, Part One: Carla's Story from 2018-06-10T07:00
On the early morning of February 17th, 1974, just after midnight, Carla Walker was abducted from the passenger side of her boyfriend’s car after a struggle with the perpetrator left him wounded and...
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