On the morning of August 1, 1966, twenty-five-year-old Charles Whitman arrived at the University of Texas Austin campus a little before noon, carrying with him several rifles, pistols, and a shotgun contained within a military footlocker. After talking his way past a guard, Whitman climbed to the twenty eighth floor of the campus clocktower and walked out on ... Show More
Nov 20
Listener Tales 104: Your Grandparents Might Be Criminals!
<p>We COULDN"T skip Listener Tales this month, so we HAD to give it to you one week early, so prepare for a batch of tales that are brought to you BY you, FOR you, FROM you and ALLLLL about you! Today we have stories of parents visiting from beyond the grave, a bladder that serve ... Show More
56m 9s
Aug 12
The Dixie Mafia's Texas Millionaire Murders
When Bill Richardson, a troubled oilman and pro pigeon shooter, was gunned down on his Corpus Christi doorstep in 1971, everybody assumed it was an open-and-shut organized crime hit. But when Richardson’s supposed killers walked free from court, and another body showed up in the ... Show More
1h 5m
Mar 2025
#292 - JFK Witness Breaks Silence: Top Secret CIA Files will NEVER be Released | Judyth Vary Baker
Watch every episode ad-free & uncensored on Patreon: https://patreon.com/dannyjones Judyth Vary Baker is a former medical researcher and writer who, while conducting cancer research in New Orleans in the summer of 1963, had a love affair with Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assass ... Show More
3h 4m
Oct 6
613: The CIA, Men in Black and the Plot to Take Out JFK | The Maury Island Incident
<div>June 1947. Harbor patrolman Harold Dahl witnesses six metallic objects over Maury Island, Washington. One drops molten slag onto his boat. A stranger in a black suit arrives the next morning, knowing details Dahl shared with no one.<br>
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Two military investigators examin ... Show More
42m 9s
Jul 2024
TEXAS RANGERS Ep. 3 | “Mason County War”
In 1875, Major John B. Jones leads the gradual transition of the Texas Rangers from frontier fighters to law enforcement officers. As Texas becomes the heart of the cattle ranching industry in America, cattle rustling becomes a serious problem. In Mason County, two factions battl ... Show More
35m 31s
Jan 2025
Agustin Chacon (King of Clubs, Texas) & Marshall McCarthy (5 of Hearts, Texas)
<p>Our cards this week are Agustin Chacon, the King of Clubs from Texas, and Marshall McCarthy the 5 of Hearts from Texas.</p><p>Agustin Chacon, 25, and Marshall McCarthy, 37, were both shot to death in their homes in the same Odessa, Texas, neighborhood on the same winter night ... Show More
35m 22s
Jun 2025
Austin Yogurt Shop Murders - 630
<p>December 6th, 1991. Austin, Texas. Close to midnight, a patrol officer reported a fire at a local frozen yogurt shop. Firefighters discovered the bodies of four teen girls who had been undressed, tied up, and shot execution style during a robbery. Almost eight years later, a g ... Show More
1h 9m
Apr 2025
Lori Vallow Daybell's phone calls. Karen Read's retrial set to start. And Houston's "lost boys".
<p>Listen to this week's episode of the Dateline: True Crime Weekly podcast with guest host, Blayne Alexander. In Arizona, the prosecution plays phone calls Lori made to her insurance agent in the days after her husband's shooting. In Massachusetts, a jury is finally seated in th ... Show More
27m 44s