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Introducing Of Hell: Texas True Crime · Gone Cold - Texas True Crime

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  Speaker 1: Hey, y'all, I want to take a moment to introduce
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  Speaker 1: you to a new show of ours. It's called of
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  Speaker 1: Hell Texas True Crime. A podcast about the killers who
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  Speaker 1: leave scorch marks on families, neighborhoods, and anyone who dares
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  Speaker 1: to remember, killers whose crimes leave behind one burning question,
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  Speaker 1: are there more victims? Each episode follows the trail of
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  Speaker 1: a killer who thought they could bury the truth, but
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  Speaker 1: in Texas, secrets have a way of clawing back to
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  Speaker 1: the surface. You're about to hear a clip from of
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  Speaker 1: Hell's second episode about the brutal killing of a working mother,
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  Speaker 1: a neighbor, a woman who was taken from her home
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  Speaker 1: and tortured before ultimately being slain by a madman we
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  Speaker 1: call the Slayer Saint. If what you hear next gets
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  Speaker 1: its hooks into you, subscribe to of Hell Texas True
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  Speaker 1: Crime wherever you're listening right now. Some folks aren't simply
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  Speaker 1: from Hell. Thereof it. Here's the preview of of Hell
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  Speaker 1: Slayer Saint Part two. Nancy. At around twelve forty five
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  Speaker 1: am on September sixteenth, nineteen seventy, Jean Mitchell was on
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  Speaker 1: his way home from work at trans Western Oil pipeline company.
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  Speaker 1: It was quiet, with almost no other vehicles on the road,
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  Speaker 1: nothing out of the ordinary for a sleepy town. On
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  Speaker 1: a work in school night, the man worked a lot
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  Speaker 1: and late an exhausted cog in the big energy machine. Luckily,
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  Speaker 1: his drive home to ten fifty seven Adams Street was short,
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  Speaker 1: just over five miles. When he pulled up to the house,
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  Speaker 1: Jean saw that several lights inside were on. He was
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  Speaker 1: pleasantly surprised. He rarely got to spend time on the
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  Speaker 1: weekdays with his wife and kids. Had Nancy waited up
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  Speaker 1: for him, he wondered. But as he entered the house,
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  Speaker 1: the one thing that caught his attention was the silence Nancy.
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  Speaker 1: Jean said, his voice slightly elevated. There was no answer.
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  Speaker 1: He looked over at the sewing machine. The light was on,
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  Speaker 1: the fabric remained draped between the press or foot and
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  Speaker 1: the throat plate. He could hear the slight buzz of
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  Speaker 1: electricity flowing through the machine as he drew nearer. Nancy's
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  Speaker 1: cigarettes and an ash tray with a partially smoked butt
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  Speaker 1: sat on the sewing table, and underneath, Jean noticed were
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  Speaker 1: his wife's shoes. That was Nancy always barefoot inside Nancy,
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  Speaker 1: he called out again. Still nothing. Jean made his way
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  Speaker 1: around the house, the kitchen, the bathroom, the bedroom. The
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  Speaker 1: search didn't take long. The working class family lived in
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  Speaker 1: a modest home, nothing fancy. His wife was nowhere to
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  Speaker 1: be seen. After waking the children, who'd been asleep in
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  Speaker 1: their bedroom, Jean asked where their mother was. They didn't know.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't she home, they asked. Confused, Jean traveled from room
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  Speaker 1: to room one more time and then took a look outside. Nothing.
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  Speaker 1: He called several relatives, none of whom had seen or
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  Speaker 1: heard from Nancy, except her uncle, who told Jean that
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  Speaker 1: everything was fine when they spoke just a few hours before.
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  Speaker 1: The man became frantic. It was late, and the unlit
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  Speaker 1: homes spanning the entirety of this block attested to it.
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  Speaker 1: On any other night, it would be the kind of
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  Speaker 1: darkness that says everyone's asleep and nothing bad ever happens here.
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  Speaker 1: But not tonight. Tonight, it and the silence were foreboding.
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  Speaker 1: Jeane needed to know. If anyone heard anything, their slumber
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  Speaker 1: be damned. Next Door, his groggy neighbor rubbed his eyes
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  Speaker 1: but snapped to attention at the line of questioning, gosh, no,
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  Speaker 1: I wouldn't know where she went. He told Jean he'd
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  Speaker 1: heard a car door shut that night, but hadn't noticed
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  Speaker 1: anything else, the neighbor said. Jean then questioned the man
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  Speaker 1: who lived across the street. He reported hearing a dog barking,
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  Speaker 1: but could tell the distraught man nothing else. Jean went
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  Speaker 1: on to speak with a few other neighbors, but none
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  Speaker 1: offered any answers. He stopped, if only for a second,
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  Speaker 1: trying to remain calm, trying to think, but no one
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  Speaker 1: else came to mind. There was no one else to
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  Speaker 1: talk to. After hours of searching in vain for his wife,
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  Speaker 1: Jean went back home and phoned the Winkler County sheriff
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  Speaker 1: office to report her missing. Two deputies arrived at the
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell's home within minutes. First, they took a look around
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  Speaker 1: the house. The officers noticed Nancy's shoes under the sewing
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  Speaker 1: table and the half smoked cigarette as if she'd been
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  Speaker 1: interrupted by a knock on the door and extinguished it
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  Speaker 1: before answering. They noticed her closet and drawers were full.
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  Speaker 1: She obviously hadn't packed up and moved on. Her purse
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  Speaker 1: anyway had been left behind and the billfold found on
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  Speaker 1: the sewing table contained two twenty dollars bills. It seemed
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  Speaker 1: robbery wasn't in the cards. One deputy jotted down Nancy's description.
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  Speaker 1: She was blonde, with blue eyes, and small. She stood
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  Speaker 1: only five feet two inches tall, weighed about one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and ten pounds, and was last seen wearing a double
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  Speaker 1: knit avocado colored dress. It was one of a kind,
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  Speaker 1: one that she had made herself. It was the only
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  Speaker 1: dress missing from her closet, and folks who saw her
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  Speaker 1: at the drug store filling a prescription earlier in the
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  Speaker 1: night also saw her in that outfit, they'd later report
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  Speaker 1: to police. Before leaving the Mitchells, the patrolman checked the
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  Speaker 1: house once more, paying close attention this time to the windows,
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  Speaker 1: all of which were shut and locked. Just like the
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  Speaker 1: back door. There were no signs of a struggle, let
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  Speaker 1: alone forced entry. After the police left, they too spoke
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  Speaker 1: with the neighbors, but found out little more than Jeane had.
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  Speaker 1: No one had seen or heard much of anything that night,
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  Speaker 1: certainly not the screams of a woman in distress. Police
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  Speaker 1: were already theorizing an abduction scenario and figured out the
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  Speaker 1: assailant either covered Nancy's mouth quickly, or had her held
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  Speaker 1: at gunpoint. Friends and relatives flocked to the Mitchell home.
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  Speaker 1: They did their best to console Jane, but no one
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  Speaker 1: could not really He'd been sweet on Nancy since he
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  Speaker 1: could remember, even before they started dating. In the seventh grade,
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  Speaker 1: they were engaged while in the ninth The pit of
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  Speaker 1: Jean's stomach felt unbearably empty.