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Aug 2025
1h 5m

The Dixie Mafia's Texas Millionaire Murd...

The Underworld Podcast
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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 Gulf of Mexico, investigators stumbled on a conspiracy that pitted millionaire g ... Show More
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