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93. [Texas] Linda Donahew · Bless This Mess: A Southern True Crime Podcast

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Hey, every one, welcome to bless Us Must Your Corn podcast. I'm
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Carre here with STUSA used to do all right, So we're back this week.
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We're going to Texas. We actually yes and more ways than one.
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Stay tuned. Stay tuned anyways. Um, so it's actually someplace I used
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Stewart and then get into Tonight's case. Out of Texas. All right,
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I mean we're back. We took a break, but I still hate stew
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So here we are. We're just gonna have to just power through. If
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the sound, if the tone is melancholy Tonight, it's not because of the
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murder. It's because of the hatred I have for Stewart right now, So
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yes, all right. So Linda Sue Donna Hugh Nay Thompson was born June
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fifteenth, nineteen forty five, in Dallas, Texas. She grew up with
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four siblings, Tommy, David, Bonnie, and Terry. And Linda was
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very pretty and vivacious. She lived her life to the fullest. She was
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an animal lover her entire life, from it ranged from dogs to horses.
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She no cats. Well, I don't know, maybe she like would you
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consider cats falling in between dogs and horses. Well, I don't know.
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I thought we were going from smallest animal the largest animal. I don't know.
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Maybe she liked a cockatoo or a cockatoo. Wow. Um, that's
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a modern family joke. Anyways, she had lots of friends. And if
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we're gonna quote any any TV shows that means to do both know it's modern
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family. If it's to show that, I just know it's friends. So
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she had lots of friends and I had an active social life. Linda ended
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up in Arlington in the early nineteen eighties. See this is where I lived
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in Arlington for a short period of times too. She would eventually move in
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with her sister Bonnie at twenty four or five Southcrest Drive. It located in
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southeast Arlington. I don't know why I had what I'm saying, Southcrest Anyways.
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Linda was an avid horse rider and was part of the Arrant County Sheriff's
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posse in Texas Ranger Bells, where she rode in rodeos and civic functions.
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I tried to look up the Texas Ranger Bells and I don't think they exist
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anymore. It's probably like non not kosher anymore. But um, I think
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they were just like the bells for the women of the Texas Rangers, like
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went and road and all these rodeos and stuff. I don't know, but
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yeah, she she did. She did extra activities with the horses like that.
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She liked to go to these these uh, civic functions and be part
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of where you'd see like horses riding around and things like that. Rodeos,
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yes, and civic functions and other civic functions. Yes, Stewart, Well,
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they have traw rides here in Nisana. But I know, but this
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is more of a I think this is more of a um, what do
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you call it? A organized eventized? Well, I think this is more
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of a public organized event. Okay, Stewart, shut up, Oh my
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god. On June one, nineteen eighty seven, at around eight thirty pm,
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Bonnie arrived at the home she shared with Linda. They had plans to
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go out at night to a country western dance hall, country and western Steward.
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They played both kinds of music. What's the books that's a Beverly hillbilly's
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reference, Branny, Okay. Now, it was one of their favorite activities.
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And as she walked through the home. She felt it was erially quiet.
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She did not see Linda anywhere. She walked around the home and entered
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a bedroom. She found Linda lying naked and covered in blood in the closet.
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It was apparent that Linda had was beyond help, so Bonnie began to
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fear for her own life. She grabbed the gun that they had kept in
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the home, and she ran out the door. So that's what I would
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think. If I was to walk in and find a dead body, my
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immediate concern would be myself, you know, not your friend. Well maybe
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my friend. But if it like say, I walked in and found your
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dead body, my immediate concern would be myself that you would get caught for
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doing it. Stewart, I am still very hostile towards you right now,
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so don't test me anyways. But I can see where she's at. She's
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a you know, a woman by herself, and she comes in and sees
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a scene. The next thing you're thinking is my sisters beyond help. I
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can't do anything. I need to get out of here because this person that
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did this could still be in here. Yes, And if you don't save
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yourself first, you can't help your friend, even if she has That's what
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they say, to put the oxygen on yourself before you put it on your
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child's too. Gotta take care of yourself first. You can't help nobody if
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you're dead. YEP, I'd take that very seriously. Now, a neighbor
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saw the commotion, came over to help, and that person called the police.
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Police arrived on scene, and they could tell immediately that Linda had been
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stabbed. One stab wound was apparent in the neck. Now, it was
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very bloody, and there was blood on the floor, the bed, the
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walls, it was pretty much everywhere. But I guess if you get stabbed
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in the neck and the juggler, it's gonna on a shootout. Yes,
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start that sounds bad. Yeah, well you hit a main artery. I'm
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okay. Even though we haven't said the autopsy or anything. If there's blood
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everywhere a person, well, the one, the one in the neck is
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just what was apparent. You know they're gonna it's it's it's far worse than
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that. That's just what it's. The parents do. What would you like
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me to describe a parent? Well, I'm a parent. No, you're
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apparently stupid, is wow? Continuing on with the hostile podcast. We're going
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to rename it too, Bless this mess, a Southern hostile podcast with one
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wife and one idiot husband, and we can didn't want you go throwing out
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blesses hard out there anywhere, bless his heart. No, you on that
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you're beyond hell. An autopsy would later determine at forty one year old Lunda
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died from manual strangulation and stab wounds to her neck. During this autopsy,
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they also found several hairs clenched in her hands, DNA artifacts in her mouth,
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and three four and pubic hairs in the gentle tale area as she had
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been raped. Yeah, DNA artifacts in her mouth. This is the actual
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language from the court documents. In the autopsy, it meant that she had
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there was a sperm in her mouth, sperm cells. So that's what the
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artifacts was. Because they were able to later test those that I would think
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that she No, it was No, I didn't know what it was either
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because it said DNA artifacts. I guess they didn't want to be like real
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explicit or whatever in the autopsy, but that's what it was. So when
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initially looking at the home, Burglary did not appear to be the motive.
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There was nothing taken. Now they believe the sole purpose was the rape and
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murder of Linda. Now, based on the crime scene, they believed that
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Linda knew her killer because there was no signs of force entry. There was
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no type of struggle in the home. It seemed like she just let this
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person come into the house. Now, crime scene investigators recovered an unidentified fingerprint
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from the storm door outside. They also determined that the killer had washed up
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after the attack, as there was watered down blood drops in the bathroom sink.
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Now, please begin interviewing family, friends and neighbors. Now. Bonnie
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said that she last spoke to Linda that morning, but she had called her
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a few times during that day but no one had answered. Now. A
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neighbor said that she recalled seeing a white, older modeled truck with the toolbox
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parked on the street in between her house and Linda's. She said she noticed
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that when she left her home around left from her home around five fifteen pm
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and it was still there when she returned around five thirty pm. Another neighbor
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saw that what are you what do you win? She goes along for fifteen
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minutes of their house for fifteen If you go up to run, if you're
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running up to yeah, you're running. I'm running up to get a coffee
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that one of you lovely listeners bought me. I'm running up to get my
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coffee a comeback. That's that's a fifteen minute round trip, okay. Anyway,
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so any's while you're judging the neighbor, another neighbor saw the same truck
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and a white male in his late twenties or early thirties with dark shoulder length
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hair exiting the truck. They were able to create a sketch of the man
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and showed it to the family. Based off of what these neighbors saw.
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Now, Bonnie believed that the man in the sketch looked like Linda's new boyfriend,
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a fellow by the name of Ronald Knicks. Ron and Linda had been
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dating for about three months, but they had recently broke it off. He
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should go by Ronnie, like Ronnie Nick sounds like a cool name. Really,
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yeah, like Stevie Nicks. Maybe that's why I think it's now police
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were headed attack down. I don't think anything. Say it's funny tonight,
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ron had Ronnie had been trying to get a hold of Linda for a few
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days. Would you can't start calling Ronnie just because I said that he went
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by Ron? Okay, oh fine, Ron. Finally, a friend of
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Linda's picked up the phone at her home and told Ron that Linda had been
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murdered. Ron came in for questioning and gave a different story as to the
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status of the relationship with Linda. Then what yeah, because there was some
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Definitely it seemed like not to throw some shade at Bonnie. But I think
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she did not like the new boyfriend. She's like he did it now.
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Ron did come in for like I said, he said that he was ready
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to marry Linda, but they had they had an argument recently, but it
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was not a major argument that would cause a breakup. Ron had no alibi
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they could confirm, and he was said he was just a home alone at
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the time of the murder. So you know what, I Phil, I
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feel bad for people that are caught up in these murder investigations. And how
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many times is everybody just home alone? You know, nobody's around you,
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who's doing stuff all the time. It was home alone. He's got no
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alibi much, Yeah, I mean being home alone a lot of us are
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home alone a lot watching Vanderpump Rules or whatever, you know, because our
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husbands won't watch it with us. You're not really out murdering. No,
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but I'm saying that, Yeah, you're not out murder I'm just saying that
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it is a common thing. Like how many times think about your life,
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how often you're just home alone? So you're just at home waiting to be
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murdered? Yes, I got Yeah. Now, with Ron being the number
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one suspect and the only thing police had to go on, they asked him
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to take a polygraph test. He agreed and handed over any DNA samples they
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requested. Now, Ron matched the DNA. He is in jail, and
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that's the end of the Stewart, that's why don't you always do this?
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And it's so annoying you do this. That's my thing. Yes, that's
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your that's your shity. You don't like it. No, I don't like
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it. I don't like you. I don't like a lot of things.
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Right now, Ron passed his polygraph with no issues. Now, with this
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information, they went back to the eyewitnesses. Ron was shorter and had shorter
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hair than the man they had seen. Ron didn't look anything like the sketch.
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That's what it came down to. Ron didn't look anything like the sketch.
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The sister just apparently I feel like she just didn't like him at all
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because he wasn't this hair and everything was different. Well, Ron I also
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did not have access to a white truck like they had seen. So with
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this they dismissed him as a suspect and they're back to square one. And
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they continued to interview Linda's social circle, and one of the men who worked
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at the horse stables recalled a man matching the sketch with Linda one day that
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had come along with her to do something. The man couldn't recall what his
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name was or really why he was there. He just remembers this man with
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this should because he had distinctive shoulder linked black hair or dark hair that the
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guy remember and he said, yeah, this is the guy. So they
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spoke to Bonnie about the man, and she was not familiar with him.
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She believes it might have been a man she was going to sell her truck
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and horse trailer. Two. Now, Linda's other sister, Terry, recalls
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Linda mentioning something about selling her truck and trailer, and the man made her
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a little nervous. So this was just conversation, casual conversations. Police are
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now putting together with what might have happened to Linda. And now remember this
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is happening in the eighties, So if you're going to sell a truck and
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things like that, people just I guess people just came up and bought things
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and stuff like that. I mean, nowadays we have these like safe we're
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so used to selling things online and everything. You know, you have like
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spaces where you meet in public spaces, and we have app sex disguise our
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phone numbers. So if you have to like text someone about something you're selling
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on Facebook marketplace, they can't have, you know, have contact with you
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with your real phone number. Back then you're just yeah. Then back then
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you just are like if I'm sure if she's talking to her sister and saying
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he makes her nervous or whatever, it probably didn't. If someone said that
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today, they say, well, don't you dare go meet them at a
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private place, don't let them get to come to your home, don't do
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any of this stuff. Make sure you meet him in front of the police
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station to sell your truck or whatever you're going to do. But back then
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it was kind of just you had to deal with it. There was no
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other way to go about. If you needed to sell your truck and your
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horse trailer, and you some guy came calling up and said, yeah,
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I want to buy it, and then he made you nervous. It was
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just like, what's you gonna do. You gotta sell the truck. Yeah,
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you gotta sell the truck and the horse trailer. So police are now
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putting together you know what might have happened to Linda. The man was in
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contact with her to buy the trailer and had gone to the stables to look
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at it. That's how he interacted with her friend at the horse stables.
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They must have agreed to meet at Linda's home and that is when he attacked
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her. They had no clue who this man was though. They were at
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a dead end now. The case went cold for years. When they did
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finally get a hit on the fingerprint on that storm door. I remember they
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had the one. That's all the evidence they really had besides the DNA,
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but they didn't really have anything. They couldn't do anything with the DNA back
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then, this was just they were collecting it because there was hopes that they
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could do something with it one day. But currently they could match blood types,
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they could match, they could do like the secret or non secret thing,
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because there's I think eighty percent of the population is a non secret which
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means you don't secrete your blood type in your like your bodily fluids and twenty
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percent R. So that could limit some people down but not not like DNA
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can. All right, so we're back, Stuce said, I'm doing a
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terrible job at this tonight. So whatever. Anyways, they're not even hearing
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this because they don't moved onto their next podcast. Stu said, everybody's neck.
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Stu said, everybody's neck? Right? Are they just nexting the whole
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podcast? Are they just are they just want to carry the one of us?
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They just moved on to the next pot. Okay, so this isn't
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our a plus work. So this is your first time listening to this podcast.
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Go listen to another episode because this isn't. Definitely, don't write a
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review based on this one. No. I thought I was doing okay,
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but whatever. Anyways, so they tracked this man down that they found that
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matched this storm door fingerprint. So he denies even knowing Linda, and as
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they investigated more, they did find out that he had lived in the area
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and him and his wife were actually going to look at Linda's house, who
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which had been up for sale for a period of time. Now, they
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never went in, but the man most likely placed his hand on the door,
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like how shitty is this your odds? He probably leaned against the door
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they like, looking in or whatever, ringing the doorbell, and that's how
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his finger got on. Their fingerprint got on there in the storm door.
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But they never actually went in the house. He didn't even remember the house
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because his wife had just was taken around. You know, if you're looking
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for a house back then, it's not you're not favoring it on the zillo.
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You know, you're you're actually going just driving through neighborhood or looking in
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the newspaper. I don't know how you sell a house back then, a
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real estate at So they're giving them all these addresses to go look at because
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at the time Linda was wanting to I think her family had lived in California
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for a period of time and she was wanting to go back that way.
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So that's why the house had been at for sale. That's why she was
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selling the truck and the horse trailer. There were things going on. So
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based on his story and everything like that, they did clear him as a
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suspect and now they're back to nobody. They got nobody the boyfriend. Yeah,
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square one, Stewart fucking square one. Okay. In August to two
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thousand and five, almost twenty years after the murder of Linda, cold case
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detectives were reopening cases that had semen and hair samples carrying DNA. They're re
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examined one of the swabs from Linda's rape kit. After a few weeks,
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they were able to complete a DNA profile from the sperm that was found.
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The data was input into the National Combined DNA Index System or CODUS as I
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will refer to it all you professional true crime listeners. Code is code is.
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Once input, this immediately matched to a man named Roger Eugene Faine.
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So they had a hit. Never trust a man with the middle name Eugenes
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do no, no, no, no. Sorry to all the Eugenes and
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our tensive listeners for that. But you know, I feel like Eugene.
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You know that all the all the there's a lot of older names coming back,
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like Ruby, but people naming their daughters like Ruby or even Esther or
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some of these older names. You know, I don't think Eugene's ever gonna
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make a comeback. I don't think it's happening for Eugene. Well, I
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don't think my grandpa's middle name is gonna come back either. So what was
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that? M Adolf? Isn't he wasn't he German too? Yes? He
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was. He wasn't that kind of German though, Okay, No, they
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came over before World War Two. He played was with the US Army invading
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into France after Oh, and that's right. And he had the middle name
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Adolf, and he had we have a we have a German, but he
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didn't want anybody in his unit to know he spoke German or then his name
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was Adolf. Yeah, but he wasn't a bad He wasn't a bad Adolf.
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He wasn't like with the Germans. He wasn't with the Nazis. He's
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with the US US Army scout. Yeah. I don't think Adolf of making
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it come back anytime soon. Yeah. Anyways, my grandmother's middle name is
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not making it come back either. But it's not as funny as it's not
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that Adolf Hitler's funny, but that's a little funny. Her name, her
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middle name was Almita, which I don't feel it's gonna make her come back.
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Well, do you think Minnie May is gonna make a comeback? Mini
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May Almita that was her full name. Yeah, Mini, I don't think
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that's going to make a comeback. Well, I mean you got mouse Mini
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MOUs. Yeah, she's going strong, she is. I wonder if she
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was named after Minnie. I don't know. She was kind of a bitch,
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so I didn't really interact with her that much. Wow May she rusty?
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Thanks Grandma wave at the floor. Wow. Okay, moving on.
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So they were able to obtain DNA sample from Fain, retest and confirm and
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it was a definite match. Now that they had their DNA match, they
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looked at other evidence in the case. At the time that Linda was murdered,
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Fain was driving in nineteen seventy six white board pickup truck, matching the
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description of the eyewitnesses. They also pulled photos a Fain from a decade before,
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and he looked just like the composite sketch that they had created back in
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nineteen eighty seven. They went back to witnesses from that time, and when
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shown his photo, he was immediately recognized as the unidentified man Linda had been
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with. I mean, seriously, these people are just gonna remember anybody with
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shoulder length there, Okay, if you're no, If your friend got murdered,
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every that person's image would be seared in my brain for the rest of
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my life. You know, whenever I saw him again, I would be
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like, that's that person, the friend that she showed up at the barns.
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Yeah, that was I'm talking about the neighbor that saw a guy with
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shoulder lenked long hair from well it was it was specifically the person at the
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stables. But yes, the person that saw him, well, I don't
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know. I probably might remember that too, be like, oh my god,
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I don't even remember this face because you don't know. You don't You've
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never been a witness to a crime like me, Stuart, So you don't
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don't know if I have been, or you haven't, or you would have
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told me already. Well, I don't know if I saw I've been to
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witness the crime of fashion every day looking at juston Wow, me I love
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a good cardigan, Stewart, don't you say anything about my cardigans. I'm
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already managed. You don't make it worse. Yeah. Yeah. When I
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met you, you were like an old lady. You're an old lady.
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You're like, I don't want to go out? Well, so eight o'clock,
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Yeah, go out? Why would I want to go out? I
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got Yeah, why would I want to go out? I got I got
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a cheap booze here, I got TV, you got date Line, I
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got a comfortable couch, I got my cart I got my sleep cardigan.
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What my sleep sweater? What? What? Why would I want to go
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out? You did have? I do have. I still have sleep sweaters,
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but I had a very I had very specific sleep sweaters. When me,
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it's it's sleep sweaters are and it's kind of a running joke with me
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and my friends. So I bought them their own sleep sweaters. I'm like,
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you don't sleep like it's a sleep sweater. It's a cardigan. That's
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like your sleep sweater. And then what it thinks you're insane? They did
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think I was insane. Whatever, you married it, you reproduced with it.
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I saw the red flags and I thought it was a carnival. You're
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an idiot. So anyway, they were able to place Linda and Thing together
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at both the horse stables and a local bar in Arlington. Now with all
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the evidence, they knew that they had Linda's killer, and it would not
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be hard to keep the track of him since he was already doing time in
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prison. Don't don't done what the old thing do? Now? Please learn
25:38
that Faint is already serving a life sentence for the murder of thirty nine year
25:41
old Sandra Dumont. We hunt ourselves, zero killers, do we do?
25:47
Yes? Did he kill three? And to kill three? Just wait for
25:49
us? Do? I thought you wrote these cases? Motherfucker? I thought
25:52
you wrote these cases. I wrote the first party. Oh yeah, I'm
25:56
just responsible from here on out. Yeah, okay, sure, I'm just
26:00
the talent. What do you want it from me? I'd like you to
26:04
show up and I'm here and be the talent. Then. Wow, I
26:10
don't know what that means. I don't either, all right, So,
26:15
so thirty nine year old Sandra Dumont. Sandra was a thirty nine year old
26:18
resident of Round Rock, Texas, and worked as a card dealer in an
26:22
Austin nightclub. Now She was last seen alive on July twenty fifth, nineteen
26:26
ninety four, at her place of work and had been reported missing. Her
26:30
body was found on August twelfth, nineteen ninety four, after a police officer
26:34
found her abandoned car in a field. Now, they tried to contact her,
26:38
but we're unable to reach her. So that's when they started looking further
26:41
into it and discovered she had been missing for weeks. Sandra had a broken
26:47
jaw and had been shot in the head. Her body was found on private
26:51
property at the intersection of Louise Hannah Boulevard in County Road one sixty nine and
26:56
Round Rock. If you're familiar with the area, I would think would be
27:00
pronounced Louis Oh, Louis Louis. What did I say, Louis Louise,
27:07
Yeah, Louise Louis Oh. It needed to be an e on the end
27:11
Louis Hannah Boulevard and Stewart. You just I'm already mad at you. Do
27:17
you have to just continue on? No, I'm still mad at you now.
27:22
Back in nineteen ninety four, it was a cow pasture. Present day,
27:26
it isn't a apartment complex now. Shockingly, along with Sandra's body being
27:30
found that day. Just a few hundred feet away was another woman's body.
27:36
It was identified as thirty eight year old Darlene Anderson. Now, Darlene had
27:41
died from a blow to the head with a blunt object. Now, Darlene
27:45
was last seen alive on June twenty seventh, nineteen ninety four, and it
27:48
was unlike her to be late for work, as she was described as being
27:52
very punctual by her co workers at the Austin Semiconductor plant plant and just added
27:59
that Austin Semiconductor. Now a group of over seven hundred volunteers, some on
28:04
horseback, went out looking for Darline in mid July with no luck. Now,
28:07
one of the people who helped with the search for Darline was actually old
28:12
Roger Faine himself, and this is ultimately what got him caught. Now,
28:17
on the day of the search, the savvy detectives do because they knew better
28:22
they've been growing up watching their date lines in there. They now that the
28:26
murder is to be so involving himself. So they wrote down every single volunteer's
28:32
name and proceeded to do criminal background checks on all of them, which is
28:36
pretty impressive for seven hundred people. And like we said, it's not uncommon
28:40
for a killer to place themselves in the investigation by either attending search parties,
28:44
is attending funerals, actively trying to help the police being you know, calling
28:48
them up on a women saying yeah, they want to be in they want
28:52
to be in it, you know. They I don't know if they makes
28:55
them think that they look less guilty, or they just want to be in
28:59
the No to know if they're someone's getting close to catching them. So Fain
29:03
lived about a half mile from Darling and was familiar with her. Now,
29:06
when they searched his background, they had their prime suspect based on what was
29:11
in that criminal record. Now old Fain had an extensive criminal history, starting
29:15
back when he was sixteen years old in Florida, where he grew up.
29:21
In nineteen seventy, he was accused of raping a thirty three year old woman.
29:25
In the nineteen seventies and eighties in Florida, he had several felony convictions
29:30
for burglary, robbery, and kidnapping. Just casual, just just run of
29:37
the mill. Now, in May of nineteen ninety one, he was arrested
29:40
near Brownsville Texas on charges of kidnapping and aggravated sexual assault. Fain was convicted
29:47
on a lesser charge of fawsome prisonment, and he went into the Texas prison
29:52
system in nineteen ninety one. He was out on parole in nineteen ninety two
29:56
due to prison overcrowding. Fuckers. I tell you, I know thee Well
30:02
wait, we need to like let out too many criminals. Criminals. Yeah,
30:07
I mean, but how did they because he was only charged with false
30:10
imprisonment is how he got out? If they had actually I mean, where
30:15
are they like plead down the charges and stuff like that, and then they're
30:18
just the court system doesn't really they can't base if they're gonna what did he
30:23
played down from kidnap? No, we shouldn't let this motherfucker. No,
30:26
But I think that they have to just look at what I think at that
30:29
point, no one's looking into it, that he's just a statistic in there,
30:33
And I was like, oh, well, false imprisonment, Oh yeah,
30:34
he can get out, But they don't really understand the whole backstory of
30:37
what he's done and the type of person he is and how dangerous he is.
30:42
But either way, I mean, let all these people out on drug
30:48
I'd rather have the people on drug drug charges and the rapist and freaking kidnappers.
30:52
Yeah, because they'll play down their gun charges like felons in possession of
30:57
gun. I'm like, oh, I guess they never had a gun during
31:00
the commission because they plattered out. Yeah. I mean like, let the
31:03
people out on the drug charge to keep the people in on the freaking violence.
31:07
Yeah, violent crime. Yeah, let's get the rapies, the rape
31:11
rapist, Let's leave them in prison. Anyways, that's yes, that's our
31:18
soap box for tonight hashtag Kara twenty twenty four soap. Now, when looking
31:25
into his activities around the time of the murders, they found that he was
31:29
driving a car that was seen in connection with Sandra. He had also visited
31:33
a doctor on July twenty sixth, the day after Sandra went missing, for
31:37
a fractured hand. Now, this is Sandra. This is the first woman
31:42
that was discovered with the broken jaw that we're talking about. Why he's actually
31:47
in jail. Yeah, not our original Linda that was murdered in her home
31:51
in eight nineteen eighty seven. Now, the doctor's officially called it a boxer's
31:56
fracture. Now, this is the type of fracture you would see from punching
31:59
someone. This aligne with the fact that Sandra had a broken jaw and he
32:02
would have punched her and injured his own hand. Police arrest Fain in connection
32:07
with the murder of Sandra in nineteen ninety four in August. He was living
32:13
with his estranged wife at the time. Come on, ladies, I'm living
32:17
with my estranged wife right now. Yeah, he is. Actually, you're
32:22
my estranged husband's pretty estranged right now. You still think we're married. I'm
32:28
not referencing you as I do this podcast with my estranged husband. Wow.
32:35
Now. Fain was held on a five million dollars bond and he went on
32:39
trial in nineteen ninety five for the murder of Sandra. Five million dollars that's
32:44
pretty pretty pricey back, especially in nineteen ninety four. That's like you ain't
32:47
getting out. I don't care who you know. It's basically like nope,
32:52
it's like we gotta set a bill, but we're gonna set it so high
32:53
it doesn't matter a little shit bag like you come up with that kind of
32:58
money. Now, during well, there's ship bags that come up with the
33:00
money. They just wow. I mean he was he was a broke chip
33:06
bag. There's there's rich ship bags that might be able to come up with
33:09
them money. But there's still ship bags and they are they might be bags,
33:15
they're rich, does not ship bags. Now, during his trial,
33:24
he had an entourage of women who had become infatuated with the killer and they
33:30
followed him from the Austin area over to East Texas where the trial was.
33:35
Hell Damnity's Texas. Come on, well, these are the Austin these are
33:39
the group These are murder groupies. They did exist, you hear about it.
33:43
Yes, they're happening right now. I mean everywhere. Look at Tom
33:46
Sandoval. He's still got people going to his concerts. The fact that you
33:52
know, who's Tom Sandoval is makes me happy. But how do I know?
33:54
You put on no anyways? Yeah, he had like we said,
33:59
he had that law almost like fabio type pair that he was. I don't
34:04
want to give him credit or anything, but he wasn't. He wasn't a
34:07
heinous looking man or anything. That's how he was able to get a lot
34:13
of these women to be around him as because he was pretty slick and he
34:17
was good looking and kind of like the whole Ted Bundy situation. He was
34:22
able to manipulate these women into trusting him and then attacking them well anyway,
34:30
so he had his groupies. Unfortunately, there was a little too much plublicity
34:35
about this thing in the Round Rock area, so hid giving conflicting stories on
34:40
how he broke his hand to his friends. He told one of them at
34:45
one time that he had slammed it underneath the hood of his truck, and
34:47
add another time to a different friend that his toolbox had fallen on it.
34:52
Yeah, if you break your hand, it's a pretty clear story. Like
34:57
you're not gonna be wishy washed on that break my hand unless I'm just like
35:01
completely drunk or I mean like, yeah, I'm drunk. I was drunk
35:06
and I something happened and I broke my hand. But I mean, well,
35:08
we had that one drunk friend that actually kicked that thermis and split her
35:12
foot wide open, and she was really drunk. She was like, yeah,
35:15
I kicked this thermis and I split my foot wid Yeah, And the
35:19
story didn't change even though she was drunk, because she someone told her like,
35:22
hey, yeah, this is what happened. Kick this thing like you're
35:24
kicking a field goal, and she did, and then she was in the
35:28
hospital with like, how are many stitches in her foot? I know this
35:32
friend? Yes, okay, we won't name her bike, we won't name
35:36
her by name. I'll tell you after Okay. But if you break your
35:42
hand, you know how you broke your hand. It's not something that happens
35:46
like. It's not like a scratch on your leg like sometimes you'd be like,
35:49
oh, I don't know how I got this scratch on my leg.
35:51
I have no clue. But if I broke my hand, I know how
35:53
I broke my hand. I'm saying that story the same to every person.
35:57
If I go onto the doctor and my coxus is fractured, I know how
36:00
I cracked my fractured my coxus. Studs have some coxus. I got some
36:06
issues or is it cox eye? I can't remember. I don't know,
36:09
But you're gonna have some cock issues. It's coxus. No, why are
36:15
you gonna be You're gonna have some other type of issues anyone my anger.
36:21
Neither of those explanations lined up with the type of fracture that old Fan had.
36:27
He also had a picture of the field where the women were found.
36:31
Now after twelve hours of deliberation. The jury found Fan guilty of murder,
36:38
thankfully because it was back in nineteen ninety four, so I don't think they
36:42
had a lot of DNA evidence. But like we said, that Boxer's fracture
36:45
was very very specific injury and it just comes from punching someone. I mean,
36:50
these doctors, they know, they didn't go to medical school for nothing.
36:53
I don't know, sometimes it seems like they did. These days.
36:57
Well yeah, you kind of wonder where they just wont access to the pers
37:02
now. Fain was sent us to twenty five years to life. He was
37:07
never charged with Darlene's murder, the other lady that was found in the same
37:10
field, because they didn't have enough evidence, although it was clear that he
37:15
had murderer too, murdered her too, murder her her. Also sorry,
37:22
Our dog's just like he's on his last leg. He's on his last leg.
37:25
He's fine though right now I have a stroke, could fall over.
37:29
We're just on No, I'm not laughing about the dog passing away. But
37:31
he has lived a very good life, a very long good life. So
37:36
a parking lot dog he was. He was whin Dixie. We found him
37:39
in the win Dixie parking lot and we picked him up because he was scared
37:44
about a storm and we were just going to bring him home and try to
37:46
find someplace for him to live. And next thing you know, we're freaking
37:51
heartwarms. It's thirteen years later. Yeah, he had heartwarms. We found
37:53
him and then he had he had like an issue with low white blood cell
37:58
counsel. He couldn't get the treatments and we had to pay for him to
38:00
take all the medication. Then there was a shortage of the heartworm medication,
38:05
so the treatment so then he finally got it. But he's lived a very
38:08
good life. He is ready to move on when he whenever he whenever he
38:14
passes, it'll be sad, but he has I will know that he We
38:16
gave him a really good life. So anyways, he's fine right now,
38:20
though he's still he's just terrible. I don't know what he's got now.
38:24
FA was, well, I know what's wrong with you? They said,
38:28
the vet said, because he had the heartworms all those years ago. This
38:31
is what happened to our other dog who Yeah, when we are our other
38:37
dog Bear, we adopted him and he had had heartworms before we adopted him
38:43
in the adoption agency or whatever, the pet what are they called the pet
38:47
rescue place they had treated him, so that finally caught up to him.
38:52
So once they have heartworms, they said, it usually catches up to him
38:54
later in life. That damage that was done and they end up with congestive
38:59
heartfel and there's really not much you can do about it. Anyways. Anyways,
39:04
don't send me your emails about how we can treat it. Okay,
39:07
we've already talked to Yeah, we don't. I don't want to hear about
39:10
it. It's fun, he's everything's good. Bear has moved on. Bear.
39:15
Yeah, Bear passed away. That was really tragic. That was I
39:19
felt that was really terrible because he had a sudden heart failure. It was.
39:22
It was really bad. I was pregnant. I was anyways, I
39:27
was out of town. Start town. It was really bad. He started,
39:30
Oh, this isn't the podcast for that, so we'll just move on.
39:35
Yeah, I was trying to mow one. Okay, well whatever,
39:37
move on some going to this whole thing. Maybe I need therapy, I
39:43
don't know, Stuart. Now Fain was seen with both Sandra and Darlene.
39:47
If you forgot because Kara went off on a tangent around town leading up to
39:52
both of their gats. Stewart, you're on thin fucking ice. Okay,
39:55
well I've been on fucking iye since I'm atting. It's true and suddenly and
40:00
you just like to tap dance all over it pass in my life. Anyways,
40:09
back in Arlington, this is back to Linda's murder. They continue to
40:15
typhon to Linda's murder. He had met his wife, Sandra and Linda all
40:21
through horses. So this is the estranged wife Sandra Linda, this is his
40:25
emo is the horses. Now. It seemed to be a way he could
40:30
gain the women's trust and charm them by pretending to have this love of horses,
40:34
because I've never I'm not, uh, I like horses. I've never
40:39
really ridden a horse. I've ridden one horse one time, just one time.
40:44
But you know, people have a connection with their horse. They talk
40:46
about how when they you know, they're riding their horse or whatever, it's
40:51
like they're one being. You know, they have a real deep connection.
40:54
So I'm sure that's the way he could ingratiate his way into these women's lives
41:00
by talking about horses, because they felt so fondly about their horses. Now.
41:06
In January of two thousand and six, Arlington Police charged Roger Fayne with
41:08
the murder of Linda Donohue. In two thousand and seven, the case went
41:13
to trial, and they felt very confident that they could get a conviction.
41:17
They had lots of circumstantial evidence, eyewitnesses and the DNA evidence. Now,
41:22
it only took the jury an hour to find Fayn guilty of Linda's murder.
41:25
On December nineteenth, two thousand and seven, Fayne received another life sentence for
41:30
Linda's murder. The judge rule that they would be served consecutively and prosecutors did
41:37
not seek the death penalty in this, so that's why he got the life.
41:42
That seems like Okay, Well, he's already in jail for life while
41:47
he spending tax Tara Dollar put him my trial in. I think the bad
41:51
penalty sat the motherfucker shoot him up with some sordium pentethal Okay, well,
41:57
calm down, Stewart, I'm upset about this, okay. Anyways, police
42:01
believe Fayne has killed more women than the three that they know of, which
42:06
would be Linda, Sandra and Darlene. Now Roger Faine is currently serving out
42:10
his prison sentences in the John B. Connolly unit near Kennedy, Texas,
42:15
which is southeast of San Antonio. His next eligible pearl date is November twenty
42:21
fourth, twenty twenty four. I highly doubt he's ever getting out. Well,
42:27
if he does, now I can come find it. Because I didn't
42:29
seek They didn't seek the death penalty. They really should have put a stop
42:31
to this situation. Stewart. They they like appeal and appeal and a peal
42:37
and it. Well, he can see why is he saking pearl? How
42:40
is he eligible for pearl? I guess he's a because after so many years
42:45
they are eligible. We've we've learned this after so many years. It doesn't
42:50
matter. If it's a live sentences, there's sentence there without parole. You
42:53
can get life without pearl. Like, okay, well he's eligible for pearl
42:57
in November twenty I don't know name. Okay, I don't need any dresses.
43:00
I need phone numbers for the people. I think that's illegal. I
43:05
don't think that we can do that. Yeah, anyways, all right,
43:10
so that's our case for this evening or this week. Student doesn't like when
43:15
I name times and days. Oh so now all of a sudden, I
43:19
can do it because I'm mad at you. You can do whatever you want.
43:22
Oh, now I can do whatever I want, all right, Sue?
43:24
So do you have your y'all need Jesus? Because you failed the last
43:28
couple episodes? The last couple of episodes, well, well one of them,
43:31
okay, you felled one episode. I didn't, yeah, because we
43:36
said you didn't like George Jones. No, I'm talking about there was actually
43:40
a not not a y'all need Jesus on one of our last episodes because I
43:45
said, do you have a y'all need Jesus? And you said yes,
43:47
but you didn't really, so I had to stop recording and then we never
43:52
you never found a y'all need Jesus? So then I just had to splice
43:57
in and take that part out because you didn't have one. So what do
44:01
you have? Yeah, that really happened. Do you have I didn't tell
44:06
you ano no, do you have no? Because I would have had to
44:09
record something extra. So oh, I can talk about Vanderpup rules all day
44:15
long if you'd like. Anyways, Um, do you have a y'all need
44:21
Jesus? I would I do. Okay, well, would you like to
44:24
say it? Now? What I like to tell you the story? Yes,
44:28
of a jealous wife who stabbed her husband multiple times. Well, I'm
44:34
not jealous, but I understand the stabbing part after finding pictures of him having
44:38
sex with another woman on his telephone. Oh, this sounds like Vanderpup rules
44:45
without I mean, Ariana did not stabb Tom, but I mean she did
44:50
with her eyes. You know what I'm saying. There was definite daggers.
44:53
This woman did not realize that the other woman was actually herself. God taken
45:02
years earlier. Oh, she stabbed her husband to death over having sex with
45:07
herself. I mean with him having sex with her and recording it. He
45:09
didn't die, Oh thank god. I mean that's pretty bad. So,
45:14
I mean, I'm happy for him because Florida not Florida is the next question.
45:17
This feels Jersey to me, But I don't know. This feels like,
45:21
I mean, it could be a Jersey thing. A jealous wife has
45:24
been arrested in Mexico. Oh, Mexico. Okay, she was probably from
45:30
originally from Jersey, but she's she's an ex pat in Mexico. You think.
45:36
Yeah. She reportedly stabbed her husband in a blind rage when she found
45:40
old photos on his cell phone of him having sex with another woman, failing
45:45
to realize as the images were actually of her. The woman, identified police
45:52
only as Leonora Are, was arrested last week after law enforcement worst summoned to
45:59
my home in the municipality of Mexican Words, no tor reports of a domestic
46:08
dispute. So we're just not even gonna try to mispronounce the words. We're
46:13
just gonna say some it was let me see Jimmy, Let me see Jimmy
46:21
Sonora Hime. Sure the jay is going to be like hazeus, like come,
46:29
let's go come himme. Samora. If you speak Spanish, please write
46:34
in and tell us how terrible we are. Well tell Carol now Win our
46:37
officers, at least you just were gonna say whatever. They found that Leonora's
46:43
husband, Juan Stus, had been stabbed multiple times. Let me see that
46:52
once, let me see that or does it say one stu is? Does
47:07
it say Stu now had been stabbed multiple times on his legs and arms,
47:15
So it never said one stu is. No, that's a play on your
47:21
name. Yes, okay. The violent attack was reportedly sparked after I mean,
47:25
Leonora found explicit photos on one cell phone showing him having sex with whom
47:34
she believed to be another woman, without giving him time to explain himself,
47:39
leads him when he's you gotta, you gotta, you gotta do a sneak
47:45
attack. You gotta stab while the iron's clean. Yeah, you can't let
47:50
him know, let him have time to to to create the lie up in
47:53
his head. You just gotta go for it. Yeah, So, without
47:58
giving him time to explain himself. Might have been a stick on Lenora's part
48:01
in this in this instance, but every other instance. Don't let the man
48:05
have time to think about it. Leonora allegedly began stabbing One over and over
48:12
again. Please tell me these two are still together, while hurling insults at
48:15
him. I mean, it wouldn't really be a domestic situation unless she was
48:22
insults insulting while she was stabbing him. Police said. One was eventually able
48:28
to wrestle the knife out of his incense wife's hands and asked her what photos
48:34
she was talking about. Oh, one, I shall feel so bad for
48:38
you. He then explained to her that the photos were actually of him and
48:44
Leonora, taken years earlier, when they were just dating. Leonora reportedly didn't
48:51
immediately recognize herself because the woman in the Inja's images was younger, thinner,
48:58
and wearing makeup. According I mean, we've all been this is the natural
49:02
progression. We stopped. We get older, we might put on a few
49:08
love pounds, we stopped wearing makeup. We're like, we don't need to.
49:12
We got him locked in. It happens, ladies. I could just
49:15
see her like stabbing him and then deep like she's still slowly stabbing him,
49:22
and she's like, oh, I look good. The next thing I said,
49:30
Oh my god, I look so good. One told police that he
49:35
then explained to his wife that he had recently found the images in an old
49:38
meet email and saved them to his phone. Well because he was like,
49:42
heck, yeah, yeah. It was so old that they couldn't text him
49:45
before my young hot wife. They had to email him back. When she
49:51
soon realized that she was actually the woman depicted in the pictures, Reports say
49:57
Leonora was immediately taken into custody and remind remains behind bars. Penny charges,
50:06
did they stay together? And well, I don't know what'll happen that we'll
50:08
happen. I feel like one's done some other things to elicit that type of
50:14
reaction without explanation. I feel like one has some other discretions in his past
50:19
and this was the tip of the iceberg. And then she I don't think
50:22
this was a one off incident. Well, the story comes to us from
50:28
January twenty twenty one. So so if Leonora and Wan, if you're out
50:32
there and you're listening, please let us know are you still together? We'd
50:37
like to know. We would like to know. Well, there was that
50:39
couple that, oh there the couple that try to kill each other that we
50:44
did. Yes, they stayed, they were together for fifty years. Still
50:49
haven't watched that. Yeah, yeah, anyways, all right, well,
50:53
I guess we can watch that now that our podcast shows are based on a
50:59
true story. I swear to God, no one is paying us to tell
51:01
you about this. I mean they really should, but because I could sell
51:05
it, guys, I could sell it. But it's a great show.
51:07
Anyways. Um, well, stud you came through on that. Y'all need
51:12
Jesus I might forgive you for all your transigissi a qussions from earlier today.
51:15
I don't even know what you're talking about anyways, But I guess that's our
51:23
uh. Let's let's let's just mention the Patreon again to buy me a coffee.
51:29
The Facebook, the Instagram, the right review, subscribe, just do
51:32
it all. It's all in the notes. So um, I guess yeah,
51:37
And I guess that's it for now, So I guess we will see
51:40
you next time. Bye, everyone, say bye. Stuy to be spicious
52:00
and Signal is swearing by lay like Cambridge