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Jun 17
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The Icebox Murders

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About this episode

 In 1965, Houston police discovered the dismembered bodies of Fred and Edwina Rogers neatly stored inside their own refrigerator. Their son, Charles, vanished without a trace and remains the only suspect.

But was this brutal crime the act of a desperate man… or part of something bigger? In this episode, we explore the mystery of the Icebox Murders and the wild conspiracy theories that followed, from CIA plots to the JFK assassination.

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Sources:

  1. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=19650625&id=lntaAAAAIBAJ&pg=5841,3030093

  2. The Text Files Icebox Murders

  3. Nationwide Search for Son

  4. What is Ham Radio

  5. Cue Still Sought in 2 Slayings.

  6. The Chilling Tale of the Icebox Murders | Houstonia Magazine

  7. The Case Of The Grisly Ice Box Murders That Horrified Houston In 1965

  8. The Man on the Grassy Knoll

  9. https://www.newspapers.com/image/432351929/?match=1&terms=Houston%20Murder%20Suspect%20Linked%20to%20JFK

  10. https://www.newspapers.com/image/432352051/

  11. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39694048/fred_christopher-rogers

  12. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/39693994/edwina-ivor-rogers

  13. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/35641062/betty_charlotte-rogers

  14. Fridge Full of Horror: Couple Was Dismembered in 'Icebox Murders,' and Geophysicist Son Was Nowhere to Be Found

  15. Houston 101: A Notorious Montrose Murder's (Alleged) Connection To The Deaths of JFK and MLK

  16. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/oswald-the-cia-and-mexico-city/

  17. Houston's Unsolved Icebox Murders Might Have Ties to JFK Assassination

  18. Woody Harrelson’s father convicted for assassinating a federal judge | December 14, 1982 | HISTORY

  19. https://www.newspapers.com/image/756481791/?match=1&terms=fred%20and%20edwina%20rogers

  20. https://open.spotify.com/episode/3SULKleX7uxmCt5EzY4g10?go=1&sp_cid=8721b7eaa8487a1bfb69f912543749e7&utm_source=embed_player_p&utm_medium=desktop&nd=1&dlsi=bc9ede1ee60d41f3

 

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